Comment on HEB, CVS pay more than $2 million in drug penalties

Two pharmacy chains in Texas paid more than $2 million in civil penalties to settle allegations that the pharmacies sold drugs to an unlicensed doctor, prosecutors said Friday. CVS Pharmacy, Inc. paid a civil penalty of $1,912,500 on Thursday, while H-E-B paid $262,500 in early August to resolve the alleged violations of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, said Kenneth Magidson, the U.S.