A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging a Mississippi man with wire fraud and healthcare fraud and with conspiracy to commit wire and healthcare fraud. According to the indictment, in October 2016, Phillip Anthony Minga, 55, of Amory, MS, was excluded from providing services to Medicare participants. Minga also signed an agreement which provided that Medicare would not pay claims submitted by anyone who employed Minga in a management or administrative role. The indictment charges, however, that Minga and others concealed his ownership interests and managerial roles in multiple pharmacies and caused the submission of millions of dollars in claims for reimbursement to Medicare, in violation of his exclusion agreement.
