LEXINGTON, Ky. — The United States Attorney’s Place of work for the Japanese District of Kentucky announced that Pikeville Healthcare Middle (“PMC”) has agreed to fork out the United States $4,394,600 in civil penalties, to solve allegations that its violations of the Managed Substances Act’s (“CSA”) recordkeeping provisions resulted in considerable diversion of risky opioids from its pharmacy.  The settlement is one of the nation’s most significant relating to CSA recordkeeping violations involving allegations of drug diversion at a healthcare facility. The settlement is the third-biggest civil penalty ever acquired from a medical center procedure beneath the CSA. As a registrant with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), PMC experienced…