In 2022, the owner and CEO were charged with workers’ compensation fraud and a kickback conspiracy, according to the Justice Department. They were accused of paying physicians to prescribe and dispense expensive pain creams and other medications before billing payers 15 to 20 times the drug’s cost.
Hunter Burroughs, the founder and owner of Common Compound, was sentenced to four years in prison, a fine of $25,000 and $3.5 million in restitution. Former CEO Stephen Andrews was sentenced to nearly three years in prison and ordered to pay $2.3 million.
