Fraudster of the Week -- Pharmacy Fraudster Steven Butcher
Posted 02/16/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On Wednesday, former pharmaceutical sales representative Steven Butcher admitted to running a $45 million scheme to swindle both federally-funded and private health care benefit programs. Butcher was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, a law designed to remove financial incentives...
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On Monday, a federal jury in Miami unanimously convicted Monty Grow of running a compound pharmaceutical drug conspiracy that bilked $20 million from TRICARE, a healthcare program for military members and their families. Grow was a star linebacker at the University of Florida in the early 1990s and spent two seasons as a cornerback in the NFL.
Prosecutors accused Grow of...
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A Louisiana federal judge has sentenced Dr. Frederick Floyd to 10 years in prison for operating two New Orleans-based “pill mills.” Last September, Floyd pleaded guilty to dispensing millions of dosages of oxycodone, fentanyl and other addictive drugs to patients. The special agent in charge of the DEA’s New Orleans Field Division noted that Floyd’s “disgraceful...
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The United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict against Floyd Calhoun “Cal” Dent and two co-conspirators, Robert Bradford Johnson and LaTonya Mallory, for defrauding Medicare and Tricare. The government alleged that Mr. Dent and his co-conspirators paid kickbacks to physicians so they would order medically...
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AmeriCare Ambulance Service, Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS, Inc. have reached a $5.5 million settlement with the government, resolving allegations that AmeriCare defrauded Medicare by billing for medically unnecessary ambulance transportation services. According to the government’s complaint, AmeriCare submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and TRICARE for...
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A Delaware federal court entered a default judgment of roughly $16.2 million against MRI provider Orthopaedic and Neuro Imaging LLC (ONI) for violating the 
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A Lenior City, Tennessee, chiropractor has paid $1.45 million, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act violations. Matthew Anderson and his management company, PMC LLC, managed four pain clinics in Tennessee, most recently known as; Cookeville Center for Pain Management; Spinal Pain Solutions in Harriman; Preferred Pain Center of Grundy County in Gruetli Laager; and McMinnville...
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced a $7.62 million settlement with California-based DJO Global Inc. to resolve allegations that a DJO subsidiary falsely billed TRICARE for excessive and unnecessary supplies. The government alleged that the DJO subsidiary used an improper “assumptive selling” technique to induce TRICARE beneficiaries to order supplies that they did...
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