A federal grand jury last week indicted four people in Florida and Georgia in connection with an extensive compound medication scheme, part of a nationwide crackdown that has been called the largest health care fraud investigation in U.S. history.
But a pharmacist who filled many of the $7,000 pain-cream prescriptions is charging that the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager could have done more to stop the fraud, long before it cost insurers more than $8 million.
"The whole thing could have been stopped by Express Scripts the very first week, but I guess they got greedy,"...
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