{"id":158,"date":"2020-06-12T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:00:37","slug":"fbi-raid-leads-to-several-medicare-and-medicaid-prescription-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/fbi-raid-leads-to-several-medicare-and-medicaid-prescription-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raid Leads to Several Medicare and Medicaid Prescription Fraud Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an ongoing investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, several of Michigan\u2019s pharmacists have been charged with Medicare and Medicaid Prescription Fraud.\u00a0 The allegations include claims that at least one scheme lead to the defrauding of the Federal Government of more than five million dollars. Further, that fraudulent claims were submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross via the service dialdrugspharmacy.com. Medications fraudulently prescribed included Clozapine and Alprazolam. According to the complaint, some of these prescriptions were\u00a0written for dead people.<\/p>\n<p>According to Title 18 of the United States Code, health care fraud consists of the knowing implementation (or attempted implementation) of a scheme intended to defraud a health care program using false pretenses. A pharmacist can violate this law even if they are ignorant of the law itself, or if they only have the \u201cgeneral intent\u201d to violate the law. This is because health care fraud under this section is not a specific intent crime. The law defines \u201cfraud\u201d as being the intentional deception or misrepresentation of facts which lead to the receiving of an unauthorized benefit. But here again the intent need only be general and not specific. According to the Michigan prescription fraud lawyers at the Barone Defense Firm, this can lead to unfair prosecution of pharmacists who never specifically intended to violate the law.<\/p>\n<p>There are many kinds of prescription fraud.\u00a0 Once type of prescription fraud involves a scheme whereby a prescription is set on \u201cauto-refill\u201d and then billed as scheduled when the patient never actually ordered or wanted the medication. These prescriptions are never picked up but the pharmacy non-the-less bills Medicare. This same medication can be \u201cre-sold\u201d many times over, thereby increasing the size of the auto-refill fraud. Another version of this kind of fraud involves giving the undelivered pills to patients, staff or medical sales reps for redistribution. This is most common with Opioid drugs that have significant street value.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/fbi-raid-leads-to-several-medicare-and-medicaid-prescription-fraud-charges\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading FBI Raid Leads to Several Medicare and Medicaid Prescription Fraud Charges\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an ongoing investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, several of Michigan\u2019s pharmacists have been charged with Medicare and Medicaid Prescription Fraud.\u00a0 The allegations include claims that at least one scheme lead to the defrauding of the Federal Government of more than five million dollars. 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