October 3, 2022

Medical sales representative Steven Monaco has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for orchestrating two fraud schemes that led to multimillion dollar losses to federal, state, and private health insurance plans.  In the first scheme, Monaco arranged for a doctor’s medical assistant to be placed on the payroll of a medical diagnostic laboratory in exchange for all of the doctor’s labwork.  In the second scheme, Monaco arranged for doctors to sign medically unnecessary prescriptions for expensive compounded medications, on behalf of patients they never evaluated, in exchange for illegal kickbacks.  Monaco received $36,000 from the first scheme and $350,000 from the second scheme, and caused over $4.6 million in losses to the insurance plans.  USAO NJ

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