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Medical Equipment Company Settles Fraud Charges

Cooley Medical Equipment, Inc., an Eastern Kentucky medical equipment supplier headquartered in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $5,254,912 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false or fraudulent claims that misrepresented the ingredients used in certain compounded medical creams. Cooley previously operated a pharmacy in Prestonsburg that in 2015 began…

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Man Admits Bribing Doctor as Part of Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Scheme

A Manchester, New Jersey, man today admitted paying tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to a sports medicine doctor on behalf of Prescriptions R Us, a compound pharmacy in Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Howard Wertheim, 67, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez in Camden federal court…

Man Admits Bribing Doctor as Part of Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Scheme was originally published on Allison Legal Law Firm

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U.S. Targets Pharmacies Over Soaring Claims to Military Health Program

Settlements sought for prescriptions written in cases where doctors never met patients Federal prosecutors in at least four states are mounting investigations into what they describe as widespread fraud by compounding pharmacies in claims to the health-insurance program that covers 9.5 million U.S. military members and their families. In the latest move, four Florida pharmacies…

U.S. Targets Pharmacies Over Soaring Claims to Military Health Program was originally published on Allison Legal Law Firm