The big wholesaler has agreed to pay a fine of $105,000 to settle a charge by the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy that it failed to report increases in drug orders from a rogue pharmacist, The Columbus Dispatch reports.

The fine relates to Cardinal Health’s shipments of controlled substances to Caringwell Pharmacy in Dublin, Ohio, from November 2006 until March 2007. The board said Cardinal provided addictive drugs, including prescription painkillers and anxiety meds, the paper writes.

The pharmacy board, which regulates drug sellers and distributors that do business in Ohio, closed Caringwell last year for illegally selling the meds over the Internet. The board investigated Cardinal for failing to report the pharmacy had significantly increased orders of controlled substances, as is required by Ohio law, the paper reports. The sales to Caringwell, a licensed pharmacy, were legal.

William Winsley, the pharmacy board’s executive director, tells the paper that Cardinal made 105 sales to Caringwell without reporting increased orders to the board. Cardinal agreed to pay the maximum fine the board could have levied had there been a hearing, $1,000 per occurrence. According to the agreement, Cardinal “neither admits nor denies the allegations pending in the board’s investigation.”

The wholesaler also agreed to make significant changes in the way it monitors sales in Ohio as part of the settlement, and has been implementing several of the changes already because of an investigation of several other of its warehouses by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.