The owner of a Baton Rouge, La., pharmacy pleaded guilty April 24 to directing a scheme to defraud Medicare of $2.2 million by repackaging and redistributing unused prescription medications as if they were new and being distributed for the first time, the Department of Justice and other federal and state prosecuting agencies announced (United States v. Carter).
At a hearing before Judge James J. Brady of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, defendant Mona Patrice Carter pleaded guilty to one count of health-care fraud, according to acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of ...
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