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US Military Pharmacy Fraud Case: Federal Prosecutors Investigate Claims Of False Billing Amid Sharp Increase In Prescription Drug Spending


GettyImages-1514021Federal prosecutors have opened investigations in at least four states into compounding pharmacies that allegedly issued false claims to a U.S. military health insurance program in violation of the federal False Claims Act, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. In Florida, where four pharmacies previously agreed to pay a total of $12.8 million in civil settlements that they allegedly falsely billed military insurance program Tricare, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, A. Lee Bentley III, said he would pursue "numerous criminal investigations" and would aim to file criminal charges by early 2016.

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