Ten, including Pharmacy Owners, Pharmacist, and Nurse Practitioner, Charged in Over $200 Million

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Ten, including Pharmacy Owners, Pharmacist, and Nurse Practitioner, Charged in Over $200 Million Prescription Drug Fraud


BIRMINGHAM – Ten defendants were charged in a 103-count indictment, including a nurse practitioner, and the owners, a pharmacist, managers, sales representatives, and billers, of a Haleyville, Ala.-based pharmacy, Northside Pharmacy doing business as Global Compounding Pharmacy. The indictment charges them with fraudulently billing health care insurers and prescription drug administrators for over $200 million in prescription drugs. In one listed instance, the defendants’ fraudulent conduct caused a prescription plan administrator to pay over $29,000 for one tube of a cream advertised as treating “general wounds.”

U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson, Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin, United States Postal Inspector in Charge, Houston Division Adrian Gonzalez, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas Holliman announced the charges.

The indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges the following individuals:

1. John Jeremy Adams, 38, of Panama City Beach, Florida, an owner and president of Global, charged in 38 counts;

Adams was arrested on Wednesday and arraigned on Thursday in the Northern District of Florida.

Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/ten-including-pharmacy-owners-pharmacist-and-nurse-practitioner-charged-over-200

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1. The efficiency of Free Market

health care in action. Making a quick buck is the guiding principle of doing business. This proves that government regulation only gets in the way of profit.