“CVS Pharmacy does not comment on pending claims or litigation. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that we provide medications to the correct patient. 
 
 “We also place the highest priority on protecting the privacy of those we serve, and we take our responsibility to safeguard confidential information very seriously.” ||||| He was supposed to get a lift from his little blue pills, but a Long Island man instead was left feeling small and deflated after a loose-lipped pharmacist blabbed about his Viagra to his wife, a lawsuit claims. 
 
 Michael Feinberg brought a prescription for eight 100-milligram pills of the erectile-dysfunction drug, with five refills, last year into the Merrick Road CVS with specific instructions: he’d pay for the medicine himself, according to the suit he filed against the pharmacy chain. 
 
 After explaining to a CVS employee, identified in court papers as “Aurula,” that the Viagra, which can cost more than $60 a pill, was not to be put through his insurance, Feinberg left. 
 
 But a few days later, all hell broke loose when his wife called the pharmacy to check on one of her own prescriptions, and a chatty worker began talking about Feinberg’s blue bombers, he claims in court papers. 
 
 Now, Feinberg says, his “marriage has broken down.” 
 
 The court papers do not say exactly why the revelation drove a wedge between the couple. 
 
 The hubby claims CVS violated his privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal law that requires a patient’s permission before revealing their “confidential protected healthcare information.” 
 
 The employee “without solicitation, improperly informed [Feinberg’s] wife that [Feinberg’s] ‘prescription for Viagra was not being covered by insurance,’” he alleges in the Nassau Supreme Court lawsuit. 
 
 Feinberg calls his wife a “third-party” who had no right to know about the drug. 
 
 He’s accusing CVS of negligence and seeking unspecified damages for what he describes as “genuine, severe mental injury and emotional harm.” 
 
 CVS places “the highest priority on protecting the privacy of those we serve,” spokesman Gary Serby said. 
 
 The U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which oversees HIPAA enforcement, says it expects to receive 17,000 complaints this year over privacy violations under the federal law. ||||| A man from Merrick has filed a lawsuit against CVS alleging that the pharmacy violated the privacy sections of HIPAA by telling his wife about his Viagra prescription, which has since caused a rift in their marriage. 
 
 According to the lawsuit he filed, on June 6, 2017, Michael Feinberg brought his prescription for eight 100 mg Viagra tablets to the CVS at 2291 Merrick Road in Merrick, and asked that it not be put on his insurance, saying he wanted to pay for the medicine himself. 
 
 However, when his wife called a few days later to check on one of her own prescriptions, the pharmacist spilled the beans, the lawsuit says, and violated his privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly called HIPPA. 
 
 Because his wife found out about the prescription, Feinberg alleges that his marriage has broken down, "causing him severe mental anguish, pain and suffering and caused him to incur damages," the suit reads. 
 
 Feinberg is seeking compensatory and punative damages, but does not outline a specific amount. 
 
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– A Long Island man is suing CVS after, he says, the drugstore alerted his wife to his Viagra prescription, according to a lawsuit filed in Nassau County Supreme Court. Michael Feinberg brought a prescription for eight of the little blue pills with five refills to CVS and asked that his insurance company not be billed for the purchase, explaining that he preferred to pay himself, reports the New York Post. His lawsuit alleges that when his wife called a few days later to inquire about one of her own prescriptions, a CVS employee identified as “Aurula” mentioned the Viagra prescription, pointing out that it was not being covered by insurance. The disclosure, according to Feinberg, has caused “severe mental anguish, pain and suffering," per Patch, as well as damage to his marriage, although court documents don’t explain what exactly happened between the couple. Feinberg’s suit accuses the pharmacy chain of violating his privacy rights under HIPAA, a federal law that prohibits disclosure of confidential health care information without the patient’s permission. He is seeking unspecified damages for emotional harm. In a statement to the Huffington Post, a CVS rep says the company places "the highest priority on protecting the privacy of those we serve." (Hiding Viagra prescriptions from spouses isn't a problem for Brits.)