Walgreen’s, Stephen L. LaFrance Holdings and members of the USA Drug pharmacy chain have agreed to pay $16 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit regarding the alleged overbilling of government health programs, attorneys from Vogel, Slade & Goldstein and Susman Godfrey announced this week.
Vogel, Slade & Goldstein partner of a boutique Washington, D.C.-based firm, Shelley Slade, and Susman Godfrey’s Bill Carmody, a partner based in New York, successfully led the whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of their client, James D. Strauser, a pharmacist who worked at USA Drug, a regional pharmacy chain acquired by Walgreen’s. The case is U.S. ex rel. Strauser, et al. v. Stephen L. LaFrance Holdings Co., et al.
