食品城将支付850万美元,解决联邦对不必要的阿片类制剂的索偿。 Food City to pay $8.5 million to settle federal claims over unnecessary opioid dispensing.

食品城是一个超市连锁店,它将支付850万美元,用于解决联邦关于2011年至2018年在四个州储存不必要的类阿片和受管制物质的索赔。 Food City, a supermarket chain, will pay $8.5 million to settle federal claims that its stores in four states dispensed unnecessary opioids and controlled substances between 2011 and 2018. 在此之前,就类似指控与田纳西州进行了2023年的4 450万美元和解。 This follows a 2023 $44.5 million settlement with Tennessee over similar allegations. 联邦政府指控食品城非法特许,并向联邦保健方案提出虚假要求。 The federal government alleged Food City made illegitimate dispensations and submitted false claims to federal health care programs.