A Houston doctor and Texas-based pharmacy were ordered to pay more than $7 million to the U.S. government Monday to settle false claims submitted for unnecessary medications, including compounding creams, gels and pain patches.
Dr. Ajay Kumar Aggarwal, 61, and Medley Compounding Pharmacy LLC agreed to pay $7,963,246 to resolve claims they improperly billed the Department of Labor's Office of Workers’ Compensation Program. The claims for payment for the various medications were "neither medically necessary nor medically beneficial to the patients," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas said in a news release.
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