Unsealed Whistleblower Case Opens Window on Repackaged Drugs

By Peter Mantius, Northern Bureau ChiefFederal investigators concluded in 2012 that Automated Health Care Solutions LLC of Miramar, Fla., had billed the U.S. Department of Labor at highly inflated rates for medications in workers’ compensation cases, but that the company’s practices were not illegal because of a loophole in federal rules.After the federal investigation, which had been spurred by a sealed federal whistleblower lawsuit against AHCS, the loophole was promptly closed, court documents show.In response, the two whistleblowers, the supervisor of the company’s nation...