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WASHINGTON D.C.
The evidence indicated that Irina Sadovsky, 53, of Calabasas, the owner, and pharmacist-in-charge of Five Star RX doing business as Five Star Pharmacy (Five Star Pharmacy) and Ultimate Pharmacy Inc. (Ultimate Pharmacy), engaged in a health care fraud and black-market prescription drug diversion conspiracy from September 2016 to April 2017.
Sadovsky’s co-conspirators created fraudulent prescriptions, either by writing the prescriptions themselves or paying kickbacks to marketers with access to patients and prescribers. Sadovsky recommended the combinations of prescription drugs to be written, checked the patients’ eligibility for reimbursement, and fraudulently submitted claims to Medi-Cal and Medicare. Sadovsky was convicted of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and conspiracy to engage in the unlicensed wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 3, 2023. She is facing up to 15 years in prison. Assistant Chief Alexis Gregorian and Trial Attorneys Justin Givens and Alex Michael of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case.
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According to officials, a federal jury on Friday convicted a Southern California woman for her role in a healthcare fraud and prescription drug diversion scheme involving two pharmacies.
Sadovsky submitted claims to Medicaid of California (Medi-Cal) and Medicare for prescription drugs that were never dispensed to beneficiaries but were provided to co-conspirators to sell on the black market.