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Pharmacy Charged with Defrauding United States Over Distribution of Under and Over Potent Drugs

Posted  06/23/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The owner and director of compliance of an Indiana compounding pharmacy were charged criminally in connection with their distribution of over- and under-potent drugs, and defrauding the United States by interfering with and obstructing the lawful functions of the FDA. Paul J. Elmer, 64, of Fishers, Indiana, and Caprice R. Bearden, 62, of Carmel, Indiana, were charged in a...

Fraudster of the Week -- Monarch Medical Group

Posted  04/28/17
Last week, California state prosecutors charged 26 individuals, including 21 physicians and 2 pharmacists, in connection with a kickback scheme orchestrated by Tanya and Christopher King, the owners of a practice management company called Monarch Medical Group and other related companies.   If convicted, the involved physicians could face up to 25 years in prison and the pharmacists could face up to 28 years. ...

September 14, 2016

Healthmark Investment Trust, partial owner of Florida-based compound pharmacy QMedRx, agreed to pay $7.75 million to resolve allegations QMedRx violated the False Claims Act by billing the federal healthcare programs for prescriptions tainted within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute.  The government is still pursuing penalties and fines from other owners and participants within QMedRx.  DOJ (MDFL)

June 21, 2016

David Allen and William Timothy Rogers, former pharmacist-in-charge and former president of the now-defunct compounding pharmacy Advanced Specialty Pharmacy (doing business as Meds IV)were sentenced to 12 and 10 months in prison for their roles in the distribution of adulterated drugs.  DOJ

February 11, 2016

Compounding pharmacies WELLHealth and Topical Specialists and four physicians, Manish Bansal, Mehul Parekh, Marisol Arcila, and Syed Asad, agreed to pay approximately $10 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to TRICARE, the military’s healthcare program.  According to the government, the physicians wrote hundreds of prescriptions for pain and scar creams never used by patients and billed to the government at a cost which yielded up to 90% in profits.  Bansal is a cardiologist at Baptist Hospital; Arcila is a pain management physician at Premier Spine & Pain Center; Asad is a neurologist at Universal Neurological Care; Parekh is a general practice physician at Baptist Hospital.  DOJ (M.D.Fla)

November 25, 2015

The US settled for more than $30 million allegations against several Florida compound pharmacies and their owners for violating the False Claims Act by fraudulently billing TRICARE, the military’s healthcare program.  The settling defendants and their respective settlements include: MedMatch Pharmacy (agreeing to pay more than $4.7 million to resolve concerns that it paid kickbacks to marketers, that it filled prescriptions it knew or should have known were not legitimate, and that it sent prescriptions to states in which it did not have a valid license); OHM Pharmacy (agreeing to pay $4.1 million to resolve allegations of filling prescriptions from a doctor who was writing them outside the ordinary course of practice); WELL Health Pharmacy and its owner (agreeing to pay more than $3 million, as well as 50% of its net profits for five years, for filling prescriptions written by referral sources that had a financial interest in the prescriptions); Topical Specialists (agreeing to pay more than $2.2 million for submitting prescriptions that were tainted by so-called “research fees,” which was an elaborate guise for paying physicians to write prescriptions); Durbin Pharmacy (agreeing to pay $2.1 million, plus 50% of its net profits for five years, for submitting prescriptions that were tainted by kickbacks); and North Beaches Pharmacy (agreeing to pay $10,000, plus 50% of its net profits for five years, for filling compound prescriptions that the government contends were tainted by illegal kickbacks).  DOJ (MDFL)
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