{"id":49852,"date":"2022-05-20T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T00:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49852"},"modified":"2022-05-20T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T00:06:37","slug":"defendants-sentenced-for-multimillion-dollar-national-telemedicine-pharmacy-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49852","title":{"rendered":"Defendants Sentenced for Multimillion-Dollar National Telemedicine Pharmacy Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"node-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49688 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3125467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3125467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3125467-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3125467-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3125467.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A federal judge in Greeneville, Tennessee, sentenced seven individuals this week along with seven related corporate entities for their roles in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme, officials stated.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Peter Bolos and his co-conspirators, Michael Palso, Andrew Assad, Scott Roix, Larry Smith, Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor and Maikel Bolos, as well as various companies owned or controlled by some of these individuals, deceived pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), such as Express Scripts and<a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/photo-by-marques-thomas-querysprout-com-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49854 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq-1536x959.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1mt1kxyfbvq.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The deception involved tens of thousands of prescriptions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The PBMs processed and approved claims for prescription drugs on behalf of insurance companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bolos and his co-conspirators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/four-men-and-seven-companies-indicted-billion-dollar-telemedicine-fraud-conspiracy\">defrauded the PBMs into authorizing millions of dollars\u2019 worth of claims<\/a>\u00a0that private insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, and public insurers such as Medicaid and TRICARE, paid to pharmacies controlled by the co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49684 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/898931-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/898931-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/898931-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/898931-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/898931.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Peter Bolos was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-jury-convicts-pharmacy-owner-role-174-million-telemedicine-pharmacy-fraud-scheme\">convicted by a federal jury<\/a>\u00a0in December 2021. Roix, Assad, Palso, Smith, Maikel Bolos, and various associated business entities pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Taneja, Kapoor, and Sterling Knight pleaded guilty to felony misbranding in a conspiracy with Bolos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer imposed sentences this week for all of the defendants except Roix, whose sentencing hearing was rescheduled for June 15, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On May 16,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edtn\/pr\/florida-pharmacy-owners-sentenced-tennessee-multimillion-dollar-nationwide-telemedicine\">the court sentenced Bolos<\/a>\u00a0to 14 years in prison and $2.5 million in forfeiture. On the same date, the court also sentenced Palso, 48, of Lutz, Florida, to 33 months in prison. Bolos and Palso also were each ordered to pay nearly $25 million in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On May 17, the court sentenced Smith, 52, of Tampa, to 42 months of imprisonment. The now-defunct corporate entities that Smith created, Alpha Omega Pharmacy, Germaine Pharmacy, Zoetic Pharmacy, ULD Wholesale LLC, and Tanith Enterprises, all were sentenced to pay nearly $25 million in restitution. The court also sentenced Taneja, 47, of Tampa, to 10 months of imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6373 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On May 18, the court sentenced Kapoor, 48, of Temple Terrace, Florida, to three years\u2019 probation and a $10,000 fine. Sterling Knight, a now-defunct corporate entity that Kapoor and Taneja created, was sentenced to pay $21 million in restitution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The court also sentenced Maikel Bolos, 36, of Tampa, to 15 months of imprisonment and a $25,000 fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On May 19, the court sentenced Assad, 37, of Tampa, to 24 months of imprisonment and to pay nearly $25 million in restitution. HealthRight was sentenced to pay $4.25 million in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15087 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service.png 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cThe scale of the prescription-drug fraud scheme orchestrated by these defendants and their conspirators was astonishing, and the court\u2019s prison sentences reflect the seriousness of their crimes,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III for the Eastern District of Tennessee.\u00a0 \u201cThe financial harm caused by health care fraud hurts all Americans, and the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee will continue to support the cooperation among its federal law enforcement partners that is necessary to bring criminal swindlers like these defendants to justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cBolos and his co-conspirators abandoned their responsibilities in the health care industry through an elaborate fraud scheme and manipulated the system without regard for patient need or medical necessity to line their pockets,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge John Condon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa. \u201cThese\u00a0significant sentences should serve as a warning to anyone who attempts to deceive the government and steal from taxpayers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7271\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7271\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Photo Image\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fraud-Image.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Photo Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Court documents and evidence at trial established that Bolos, Assad, and Palso owned and operated Synergy Pharmacy in Palm Harbor, Florida. Under their direction, Synergy employed Roix, a Florida telemarketer operating under the name HealthRight, to generate prescriptions for Synergy and the other pharmacies involved in the scheme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The prescriptions were typically for drugs such as pain creams, scar creams and vitamins. Evidence showed that to obtain the prescriptions, Roix used HealthRight\u2019s telemarketing platform as a telemedicine service, cold-calling consumers and deceiving them into agreeing to accept the drugs and to provide their personal insurance information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">HealthRight then paid doctors to authorize the prescriptions through its telemedicine platform, even though the doctors never communicated directly with the patients and relied solely on the telemarketers\u2019 screening process as the basis for their authorizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Because this faulty and fraudulent process made the prescriptions invalid, the drugs were misbranded under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Evidence showed that Synergy and the other pharmacies nonetheless dispensed the drugs to consumers as part of the scheme so that Bolos could submit fraudulent reimbursement claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Court documents and evidence at trial further established that during the conspiracy, which lasted from May 2015 through April 2018, Bolos and Palso, along with Assad, paid Roix millions of dollars to buy at least 60,000 invalid prescriptions generated by HealthRight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7857 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo-289x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FBI-Logo.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Evidence showed that Bolos selected specific medications for the prescriptions that he could submit for profitable reimbursements at inflated prices, and that Bolos, Palso, and Assad used illegal means to hide this activity from the PBMs so it could remain undetected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The convictions resulted from a multi-year investigation conducted by the HHS-OIG (Nashville); FDA-OCI (Nashville); U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General (Buffalo); FBI (Knoxville and Johnson City, Tennessee); OPM-OIG (Atlanta); and HSI (Tampa). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The U.S. Marshals Service also assisted in the investigation and the forfeiture of assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Mac Heavener of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee and Senior Trial Attorney David Gunn of the Civil Division\u2019s Consumer Protection Branch in Washington are prosecuting the case. They were assisted by Barbra Pemberton, Bryan Brandenburg and April Denard from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Greeneville, Tennessee, sentenced seven individuals this week along with seven related corporate entities for their roles in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme, officials stated.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Defendants Sentenced for Multimillion-Dollar 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