Compounding Pharmacy Fraud
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June 7, 2018
Mississippi physician Albert Diaz was sentenced to 42 months in prison for prescribing medically unnecessary compounded medications to TRICARE patients he had not examined and falsifying medical records to make it appear he had treated the patients. The fraud cost TRICARE and other insurers more than $3 million. DOJApril 26, 2018
Nicholas A. Borgesano Jr., owner of Florida pharmacy A to Z Pharmacy was sentenced to 180 months in prison and ordered to pay $54 million in restitution for his role in a massive compounding pharmacy fraud scheme. DOJMarch 30, 2018
Larry B. Howard, the owner of an Orlando-based Fertility Pharmacy, was sentenced to serve 160 months in prison and forfeit over $4.3 million for his role in a kickback scheme involving pain and scar creams that resulted in the payment of approximately $4.3 million in false and fraudulent claims to TRICARE. DOJUnited States Targets a Private-Equity Firm and Pharmacy in a Whistleblower Case
Posted 02/26/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On Friday the Wall Street Journal reported on the U.S. government’s decision to intervene in a False Claims Act qui tam case against pharmacy Diabetic Care Rx LLC and the private equity firm that holds a controlling stake in the pharmacy, Riordan Lewis & Haden Equity Partners (“RLHEP”). Diabetic Care is a compounding pharmacy that mixes different ingredients to create...
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...
Fraudster of the Week -- Former Football Player Monty Grow
Posted 02/9/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
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...
January 10, 2018
Florida pharmacy Healthy Meds Pharmacy Corp. agreed to pay $350,000 to settle allegations under the False Claims Act for filling prescriptions in violation of TRICARE’s policy on telemedicine. According to the government, Healthy Meds engaged in unsolicited calls to TRICARE beneficiaries, provided medically unnecessary compound medications to beneficiaries, and knowingly filled prescriptions from doctors who did not meet or properly consult with TRICARE beneficiaries. DOJ (SDFL)November 30, 2017
Florida-based Express Plus Pharmacy, LLC and its owner Antonio Primo agreed to pay $170,000 to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Tricare for compounded medications such as pain creams that were not reimbursable because they were not issued pursuant to valid physician-patient relationships, were issued after brief phone calls with patients that violated applicable law on telemedicine, were medically unnecessary, and/or were tainted by kickbacks to marketers. DOJ (SDFL)Fraudster of the Week -- TRICARE Fraudster Joseph Baumiller
Posted 10/20/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On Tuesday, 38-year-old Joseph Baumiller of Dallas, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud TRICARE, the health care program serving military members and their families. Baumiller, the former president of Trilogy Pharmacy, admitted to conspiring with several marketers, physicians, and other pharmacists to orchestrate a scheme involving the payment of kickbacks...