{"id":39989,"date":"2009-11-11T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"e8ea3909-50ae-426c-868a-64f3725c26bf"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:14:00","slug":"cvs-settles-with-new-york-over-expired-product-sales-north-carolina-gets-grant-for-high-risk-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39989","title":{"rendered":"CVS Settles With New York Over Expired Product Sales; North Carolina Gets Grant For High-Risk Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that CVS, the drug story chain, has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold products years after their expiration dates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNews\/idUSN1032185020091110\" >Reuters<\/a> reports. The out-dated products, sold at 142 different stores, included &#8220;over-the-counter drugs, baby formula, eggs and milk,&#8221; and in some cases items were sold more than two years after expiring (Stempel, 11\/10). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A CVS spokesman says the company is committed to keeping expired products off shelves and that the settlement doesn&#8217;t include any admission of wrongdoing,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jC3xkNEVTDgvKm9tmyFYRXFvtswAD9BSUBJG1\" >The Associated Press<\/a> reports. &#8220;Cuomo reached a similar settlement with Rite Aid in 2008&#8221; (11\/10). <\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina,\u00a0the federal government is\u00a0giving\u00a0that state a\u00a0$1.5 million grant to provide monthly subsidies to people to aid participation in\u00a0the state&#8217;s high risk insurance\u00a0pool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncnn.com\/content\/view\/5152\/26\/\" >North Carolina News Network<\/a> reports. &#8220;The state&#8217;s high risk pool provides health care coverage for those who cannot find affordable insurance in the private market&#8221; (Reinhardt, 11\/11).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/pC8MGUKo0OU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that CVS, the drug story chain, has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold products years after their expiration dates, Reuters reports. The out-dated products, sold at 142 different stores, included &#8220;over-the-counter drugs, baby formula, eggs and milk,&#8221; and in some cases items were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}