Two Philadelphia pharmacy owners will pay nearly $3.2 million to resolve allegations they billed Medicare over seven years for prescription drugs they never dispensed.
The settlement resolves all False Claims Act allegations against Irina Minkovich and Yelena Babchinetskya, owners of I&L Express Pharmacy in northeast Philadelphia. The settlement stems from an investigation and no case was ever docketed in court, Richard Manieri, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg Law in an email May 31.
Minkovich, a licensed pharmacist, and Babchinetskya will pay the federal government $3,190,789.51 to resolve the allegations that ...
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