Philadelphia, PA — United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the owners of E-Z Pharmacy in Philadelphia have agreed to pay $1,100,000 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act. Dhanyabapa LLC, doing business as E-Z Pharmacy, and Shardaben Patel will jointly pay $1,100,000 to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for prescription medications that were not actually dispensed during the period from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2016. Dhanyaba LLC and Shardaben Patel also agreed to a ten-year federal healthcare exclusion, which will prohibit them from receiving payments from any federally funded healthcare insurer such as Medicare for the next decade.
