For Immediate Release:
Contact: Nazneen Ahmed
919-716-0060
(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a settlement of more than $226,000 to resolve allegations that MedCare Clinic & Pharmacy, LLC (“MedCare”) in Indian Trail caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and the North Carolina Medicaid program. The funds from this settlement will return taxpayer funds to Medicare and the North Carolina Medicaid program.
“When health care providers cheat the Medicaid and Medicare programs, they’re wasting taxpayer resources that should go toward people’s health care,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “My office will hold accountable health care providers who commit fraud against taxpayers.”
From Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2019, MedCare allegedly submitted or caused to be submitted reimbursement claims to Medicare and Medicaid for pharmaceutical drug dosages and units that weren’t actually distributed to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Additionally, MedCare also allegedly failed to properly return those drugs to stock when people failed to pick them up.
The federal and North Carolina False Claims Acts authorize the governments to recover triple the money falsely obtained, plus substantial civil penalties for each false claim submitted. It should be noted that the civil claims resolved by settlement here are allegations only, that there has been no judicial determination or admission of liability.
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