A.G. Schneiderman Announces $7.9 Million Settlement And State Prison Sentences In Major Illegal Pres

A.G. Schneiderman's office press release ----- Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today the sentencing of two pharmacy owners, a supervising pharmacist and ten corporations for defrauding several government-funded healthcare programs, including Medicaid and Medicare. An investigation revealed that on at least eight separate occasions between November 2013 and February 2014, the defendants paid patients hundreds of dollars in cash to forgo their prescription medications, the vast majority of which were to treat HIV. The defendants then submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Medicaid-managed care organizations and were reimbursed for distributing the medications, despite the fact that they were never dispensed to patients. Tarek Elsayed, 50, of Elmhurst Queens, the co-owner of 184th Street Pharmacy in the Bronx, was sentenced today in Bronx County Supreme Court by the Honorable Stephen Barrett to one to three years in state prison. To learn more click on the picture below to read the release.