Jennifer Caloia, age 56, a licensed pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Pharmacy in Morrisville, New York, from 1998 to 2015, pled guilty in federal court in Utica to one felony count of healthcare fraud. In pleading guilty, Jennifer Caloia admitted that between 2011 and 2015, she defrauded public and private health insurance programs by submitting false and fraudulent claims for prescription drugs that the pharmacy did not dispense. Caloia also admitted that customers submitting prescriptions for medications had their health insurance providers billed for more expensive drugs than those prescribed. To facilitate this scheme, the defendant changed the names of some of the prescription drugs in the software she used to communicate with insurance companies and to print drug labels, which allowed her to submit her fraudulent claims while providing the customer with the appropriate labels and instructions. Caloia further admitted that she personally obtained $110,431.02 in unrecovered proceeds in connection with her healthcare fraud scheme. She no longer owns or operates Dougherty Pharmacy.
