New York Man Pleads Guilty To $45M Compounding Pharmacy Scheme

Newark, New Jersey – A North Tonawanda, New York, man today admitted running a large-scale scheme to defraud private and federally-funded health care benefit programs out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded medications, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Owners Of Atlantic Spine & Joint Institute Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding Medicare

Camden, New Jersey – A doctor and his chiropractor son were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to defraud Medicare by using unqualified people to give physical therapy to Medicare recipients, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced. Robert Claude McGrath D.O., 66, and his son Robert Christopher McGrath, 48, both of Cherry Hill, New…

Brooklyn Doctor Pleads Guilty To $30M Medicaid And Medicare Fraud

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim announced Tuesday a Brooklyn physician and four others pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicaid and Medicare. Forty-four-year-old Dr. Mustaky U. Vaid, 54-year-old Marina Burman, 49-year-old Asher Oleg Kataev, aka “Oleg Kataev,” 47-year-old Alla Tsirlin and 37-year-old Ivan Voychak conspired to defraud Medicaid and Medicare of…