Medsinbox Pharmacy LTC LLC, doing business as Farmacia San Antonio (Medsinbox), a pharmacy located in Camden, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $625,000.00 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal health care programs for medications that it never dispensed.
The United States alleged that, from Jan. 1, 2019, through Jan. 24, 2022, Medsinbox caused the submission of claims for reimbursement to the Medicare Part D Program and the New Jersey Medicaid Program for drugs that were never dispensed to beneficiaries. The government contends that inventory records showed that Medsinbox did not purchase enough of these medications from wholesalers to fill all of the prescriptions billed to these federal health care programs.
“Health care providers defraud federal health care programs when they bill for goods or services that they did not provide,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “We will hold accountable those who improperly seek to profit from taxpayer funded programs.”
“Pharmacies play an important role in maintaining the safety and accuracy of prescribed medications, and allegedly billing for medications not actually dispensed undermines that role and defrauds our healthcare programs,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna for the District of New Jersey. “The government will continue to pursue entities that engage in fraud and abuse at the taxpayers’...
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