The recent news surrounding federal prosecutors bringing Medicare fraud cases against doctors, pharmacies and marketers in Texas cities provides some justice where it is needed.
The cases in Texas spotlight a scheme involving pharmacy owners and marketers paying kickbacks and bribes to doctors so they’d write prescriptions for unneeded pain and scar creams. One of the patients who received the prescription died as a result of the toxic effects found in two of the drugs contained in the cream. She was only 22 years old.
Source: Medicare fraud in Texas calls for action / Times Record News