TUSCALOOSA, AL This week, Chief U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced two dozen defendants who were part of a major conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson, Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge Cynthia Bruce, and United States Postal Inspector in Charge, Houston Division, Adrian Gonzalez.
The defendants sentenced included an array of company executives and managers, a prescriber, billers, and sales representatives. Among those sentenced this week were:
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TUSCALOOSA U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona announced the sentencing two dozen people in connection to a conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
“The defendants sentenced included an array of company executives and managers, a prescriber, billers, and sales representatives,” Escalona said.
Prosecutors said an extensive investigation revealed a scheme involving a Haleyville, Ala.-based pharmacy, Northside Pharmacy, doing business as Global Compounding Pharmacy. The scheme involved directing employees to get medically unnecessary drugs for themselves, family members, and friends, changing prescriptions to add non-prescribed drugs because insurance would pay for them, automatically refilling prescriptions regardless of patient need, routinely waiving and discounting co-pays to induce patients to get and keep medically unnecessary drugs, and billing for drugs without patients’ knowledge. When prescription drug administrators attempted to police t
Alabama man among 5 sentenced in multi-million dollar pharmacy fraud AL.com 4/29/2021 William Thornton, al.com
A Winfield man was one of several people this week sentenced in Tuscaloosa in a long-running investigation into a multi-million dollar prescription drug-billing scheme involving a Haleyville pharmacy.
Chief U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced two dozen defendants in the case, which included company executives and managers, a prescriber, billers, and sales representatives.
According to U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, James A Mays, III, 45, of Winfield, was sentenced to 102 months in prison on one count of conspiring to commit health care fraud and mail fraud, twelve counts of health care fraud, and three counts of money laundering based on spending the proceeds of health care fraud.