A federal jury has convicted a Haitian national for orchestrating a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud conspiracy that exploited a federal safety-net drug pricing initiative to take funds from government and private insurance programs.
Jean Jethro Alexandre was found guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on multiple criminal counts. Court records show Alexandre systematically manipulated the 340B Drug Pricing Program which is a federal system established under the Public Health Service Act to allow eligible safety-net healthcare organizations to purchase outpatient prescription medications at heavily discounted rates from manufacturers. The program is designed to help participating entities stretch scarce resources to provide additional medical services to low-income and vulnerable populations.
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Federal prosecutors established that Alexandre used a participating healthcare entity CMJ to execute the scheme. Instead of serving legitimate patients, Alexandre and his co-conspirators turned the operation into a vehicle for massive fraudulent billing. The conspiracy involved a network of contract pharmacies that acted as purchasing and dispensing agents on behalf of the covered entity.
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