August 1, 2019
Tennessee-based telemarketer Scott Roix and his companies have agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle two whistleblowers’ False Claims suit alleging the submission of false claims to Medicare, TRICARE, and other federal health benefit programs. Roix and his companies allegedly procured fraudulent insurance information from patients around the country in order to arrange prescriptions for medically unnecessary pain creams; they then sold these prescriptions to pharmacies, labeling proceeds as earned through marketing services. The whistleblowers in this case, Jennifer Silva and Jessica Robertson, will receive $287,500 for revealing the fraudulent scheme. USAO MDFL
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