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CVS Caremark Corporation
CVS Caremark Issues Statement on Settlement Concerning Disposal of Patient Information at its Retail Stores
March 7th, 2009
CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS) announced that it has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning disposal of patient information at its retail pharmacy stores. The agreement resolves an investigation prompted by media reports from 2006 about alleged incidents of inadvertent disposal of patient information in dumpsters at a limited number of CVS/pharmacy locations in a manner that was inconsistent with the Company's waste disposal procedures. The investigation was initiated prior to the merger between CVS and Caremark, involved CVS/pharmacy retail...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-03-07)
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