Eight Indicted for $158M in Alleged Fraudulent Billing for Compound Drugs

A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted eight people for allegedly defrauding the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs out of $158 million by bribing doctors to prescribe compound medications that cost up to $28,000 per container. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said in a press release that a network of pharmacies transmitted electronic bills to the OWCP for creams used to treat injured workers’ scars, wounds and pain. The pharmacies paid doctors to prescribe the compound medications with “promissory notes” that made them app...