Pharmacist Sentenced for $1M Prescription Drug Fraud Scheme

<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br &sol;>&NewLine; Tuesday&comma; June 6&comma; 2023<br &sol;>&NewLine; Pharmacist Sentenced for &dollar;1M Prescription Drug Fraud Scheme<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>A Virginia man was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over &dollar;1 million in prescription drug benefits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to court documents&comma; Ronald A&period; Beasley II&comma; 33&comma; of Portsmouth&comma; was the pharmacist in charge at NH Pharma&comma; a pharmacy located in Lake Mary&comma; Florida&period; Through NH Pharma&comma; Beasley and his co-conspirators billed Medicare for expensive compound drug creams that they never actually purchased or dispensed&comma; instead providing Medicare patients an inexpensive compound drug cream that Medicare did not cover&period; In fact&comma; NH Pharma did not buy enough of the expensive prescription drugs to fill all the prescriptions NH Pharma billed to Medicare&period; In total&comma; Beasley and his co-conspirators received more than &dollar;1 million in fraudulent Medicare proceeds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A&period; Polite&comma; Jr&period; of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division&semi; Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division&semi; Special Agent in Charge David Walker of the FBI Tampa Field Office&semi; and Special Agent in Charge Omar Pérez Aybar of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General &lpar;HHS-OIG&rpar;&comma; Miami Regional Office made the announcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI and HHS-OIG investigated the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trial Attorneys Reginald Cuyler Jr&period; and Darren C&period; Halverson of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Fraud Section leads the Criminal Division’s efforts to combat health care fraud through the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program&period; Since March 2007&comma; this program&comma; comprised of 15 strike forces operating in 25 federal districts&comma; has charged more than 5&comma;000 defendants who collectively have billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than &dollar;24 billion&period; In addition&comma; the Centers for Medicare &amp&semi; Medicaid Services&comma; working in conjunction with the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services&comma; are taking steps to hold providers accountable for their involvement in health care fraud schemes&period; More information can be found at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;criminal-fraud&sol;health-care-fraud-unit" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" >www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;criminal-fraud&sol;health-care-fraud-unit<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> Topic&lpar;s&rpar;&colon; Prescription DrugsFinancial FraudComponent&lpar;s&rpar;&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;criminal&sol;" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" >Criminal Division<&sol;a><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;criminal-fraud" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" >Criminal &&num;8211&semi; Criminal Fraud Section<&sol;a><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fbi&period;gov&sol;" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" >Federal Bureau of Investigation &lpar;FBI&rpar;<&sol;a>Press Release Number&colon; 23-632 <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> Updated June 6&comma; 2023<a href&equals;https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;opa&sol;pr&sol;pharmacist-sentenced-1m-prescription-drug-fraud-scheme>Original Article<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;