Compounding Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Paying Kickbacks for Referrals, Health Care Fraud Offenses
From the article:
CAMDEN, NJ—A pharmacist with a compounding pharmacy in Lakewood, New Jersey, admitted today to paying tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to physicians for referring pain cream prescriptions, defrauding health care benefit programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
During his guilty plea proceeding, Kleyman admitted that in a series of meetings in November and December 2013 alone, he arranged for the middleman to receive more than $40,000 in cash or checks with the understanding it would be used to pay bribes for the referral of pain cream prescriptions.
The conspiracy count with which Kleyman is charged carries a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The government is also seeking Kleyman’s forfeiture of any proceeds derived from his offense. Sentencing is currently scheduled for Jan. 20, 2015.
It is strange… you never see anyone going to jail.. when one of the large public corporations get tagged with Medicare/Medicaid fraud. I know that it is debatable if a corporation is a person or not.. but.. either way… there is someone in the E-suite.. that is calling the shots… that caused the Medicaid/Medicare fraud…
Justice may be blind.. but.. not always equal !!
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It is because we have a two tier justice system. If you are too big to fail then you are too big to go to jail. But, if you are a little peon, you are screwed.