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Federal prosecutors say a massive pharmacy fraud settlement in Florida is just the beginning.
“Early next year, we’ll start bringing criminal charges against individual doctors,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Mehta.
Mehta says his office believes the scam began in 2013 when the military health care program Tricare started seeing a big spike in compounded pain prescriptions. Tricare typically spends $100 million a year on reimbursements for these types of meds.
However, in 2014 $1.4 billion was spent. More than 95 percent of that was fraud, Mehta says.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office settled for some $30 million with several Jacksonville compounding pharmacies…
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