May 11, 2022
A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, physician has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4 million in restitution over a scheme to charge insurers and government health programs for unnecessary services and "goodie bags" full of prescription drugs, despite a last-minute effort to withdraw his guilty plea.
March 17, 2020
A Pennsylvania doctor agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice civil lawsuit alleging he violated the False Claims Act by recklessly dispensing controlled substances and other drugs in "goodie bags" to patients who didn't need them, the agency said Tuesday.