Released: July 17, 2020

CVS fined for prescription errors and poor staffing at pharmacies

Source: Ellen Gabler - N.Y. Times (Paid Registration)

In a rare public rebuke of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain, state regulators in Oklahoma cited and fined CVS for conditions found at four of its pharmacies, including inadequate staffing and errors made in filling prescriptions.

While the fine of $125,000 on Wednesday was small for CVS Health — it paid its chief executive $36.5 million in total compensation last year and is the country’s fifth-largest company — the move validated concerns raised at multiple drugstore chains across the country by pharmacists and technicians who say understaffed workplaces are putting the public at risk.

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