August 14, 2018

An Illinois pharmacist, Steven Gibson, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies for unauthorized and often expensive prescriptions that were never intended to be dispensed to any patient. The reimbursements he received eventually netted him over $630,000—as well as the prospect of a $250,000 fine and ten years in prison. USAO SDIL

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