A New Jersey pharmacy has been ordered to serve one year of probation and pay $730,000 in restitution for overbilling health insurers for brand-name drugs when it actually sold generic brands, according to a report by Asbury Park Press.
Town Pharmacy managing pharmacist Ruben Aguilar admitted to submitting bogus claims to Medicaid from 2002 to 2007 for expensive brand-name drugs when he actually provided generic drugs or never gave any drugs at all.
The sentence terms include paying $5,000 each month toward paying off the restitution and staying offense-free.
Read the Asbury Park Press' news report on the New Jersey Medicaid fraud.
Read other coverage on healthcare fraud in New Jersey:
- New Jersey Neurologist Indicted for Healthcare Fraud
- New Jersey Pain Management Center Pays $88K to Resolve Fraud Charges
- New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds Appellate Court Ruling in Garcia v. Health Net, Rules Wayne Surgical Center Did Not Violate Fraud Statutes
Town Pharmacy managing pharmacist Ruben Aguilar admitted to submitting bogus claims to Medicaid from 2002 to 2007 for expensive brand-name drugs when he actually provided generic drugs or never gave any drugs at all.
The sentence terms include paying $5,000 each month toward paying off the restitution and staying offense-free.
Read the Asbury Park Press' news report on the New Jersey Medicaid fraud.
Read other coverage on healthcare fraud in New Jersey:
- New Jersey Neurologist Indicted for Healthcare Fraud
- New Jersey Pain Management Center Pays $88K to Resolve Fraud Charges
- New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds Appellate Court Ruling in Garcia v. Health Net, Rules Wayne Surgical Center Did Not Violate Fraud Statutes