NJ Doctor Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Role in $24 Million Telemedicine Compounded Medication Scheme
Bernard Ogon, 48, a Burlington County, New Jersey, doctor was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his role in a telemedicine scheme to prescribe expensive compounded medications to patients…
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Businessman Charged in Scheme to Hoard Personal Protective Equipment and Price Gouge Healthcare Providers
Kenneth Bryan Ritchey, 57, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was charged with defrauding the United States and other healthcare providers in a $1.8 million scheme related to acquiring and hoarding personal…
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Florida Business Accused of Selling ‘Counterfeit’ N95 Masks
According to a federal lawsuit filed in December in Minnesota, 3M alleges Nationwide Source of Delray Beach sold more than 10,000 counterfeit N95 masks to Hennepin County Medical Center in…
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Vermont Woman Sentenced for Neglect of a Vulnerable Adult and Medicaid Fraud
The Attorney General’s Office announced that Jennifer Cote, 45, of Montpelier, Vermont, was sentenced to 12 to 36 months imprisonment after entering guilty pleas for one felony count of neglect…
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Two More Individuals Plead Guilty in Connection with Healthcare Kickback Conspiracy
Kimberly Willette, 59, of Friendswood, Texas, and Edwin Chad Isbell, 48, of McKinney, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Nicolas…
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Hospital Pharmacist to Plead Guilty to Attempting to Spoil Hundreds of COVID Vaccine Doses
Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, a Wisconsin pharmacist, has agreed to plead guilty to charges filed in federal court that he attempted to render hundreds of doses of COVID-19 vaccine ineffective….
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Assisted Living Facility Supervisor Arrested for Neglect of a 98-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Resident
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office arrested a former assisted living facility resident aide shift supervisor for neglect of a resident. Pamela…
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Fired Texas Doctor Charged with Stealing Vial of COVID-19 Vaccine
A Harris County Public Health doctor is being charged with Theft by a Public Servant, for taking a vial of COVID-19 vaccine, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced January…
Read More »National Institutes of Health Employee Sentenced for Committing Healthcare Fraud
Janet Olatimbo Akindipe, 62, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for defrauding the DC Medicaid program out of more than a quarter million dollars. She was…
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Estate of Deceased Urologist Agrees to Pay More Than $1.7 Million to Settle False Claims Act Liability
The Estate of Dr. Patrick T. Hunter has paid the United States $1.75 million to resolve allegations that Dr. Hunter violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims for kidney…
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