Texas Pharmacy Owner Gets Two Years’ Probation for Fraud Scheme

A Texas pharmacy owner and sales representative was sentenced to 24 months’ probation after pleading guilty to health care fraud and kickback conspiracy in February.

The court also ordered Brian Swiencinski to pay $5.2 million in restitution, along with a $75,000 fine and $100 special assessment.

Swiencinski, who oversaw “a national network of hundreds of other sales representatives,” was accused of conspiring to pay prescribers and others kickbacks in exchange for writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded and other drugs.

He and his employees also recruited patients to sign up for medically unnecessary prescriptions, according to the superseding information detailing ...