Testimony from the man described as the "quarterback" of a team of pharmaceutical sales representatives, physicians and patients responsible for millions of dollars in fraudulent compounding prescriptions billed to the military insurer Tricare dominated the second day of testimony in the trial of an Alexander doctor for writing many of those prescriptions.
The insurance fraud trial of an Alexander physician accused of authorizing high-cost prescriptions for patients he never treated got underway Thursday with testimony from a medical sales representative who pleaded guilty to being a part of the conspiracy.
A doctor from Alexander accused of defrauding the nation's military insurer out of more than $12 million in a fraudulent prescription scheme that took place in 2015 is scheduled to go on trial Wednesday in a Little Rock federal courtroom.
Kenneth Myers Jr., 43, of Alpharetta, Georgia, formerly of Little Rock, pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud involving prescription drugs.
An Alpharetta, Ga., man who worked as a medical sales representative pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to involvement in a scheme to bilk the military insurer Tricare out of millions of dollars by recruiting doctors to prescribe high-cost prescriptions from compounding pharmacies to be delivered to beneficiaries who didn't need the medications.