December 20, 2022
A Texas businessman found guilty in a $100 million scheme to defraud the U.S. military's health program was resentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge after the Fifth Circuit reversed one of his convictions in the case, according to a sentencing order entered Tuesday.
June 23, 2022
The Fifth Circuit has reversed a businessman's conviction for paying illegal kickbacks, but affirmed he was rightly found guilty of conspiring to defraud a federal health care program out of tens of millions of dollars.
March 10, 2021
Two doctors charged in an alleged $100 million Tricare fraud scheme agreed to plead guilty to charges of misusing a health identifier to write prescriptions and agreed to pay a total of $851,000 in restitution to the Defense Health Agency, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
January 08, 2020
One of 13 defendants who went to trial last year over an alleged $100 million Tricare fraud scheme has asked a Texas federal judge to grant him acquittal after a jury deadlocked on the conspiracy charge against him.
January 03, 2020
A doctor cleared by a Texas federal jury of conspiracy to commit health care fraud has asked the court to acquit him of receiving kickbacks, four counts the jury deadlocked on in a case prosecutors presented as a $100 million scheme to defraud Tricare.
October 14, 2016
Ten men, including two doctors, have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the Tricare military health program through a $100 million scheme involving compounded medications and pharmacy kickbacks, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.