Two additional defendants who were allegedly involved in the healthcare fraud conspiracy were charged in February.
According to the superseding indictment, the 12 defendants defrauded the federal government by paying kickbacks to physicians who prescribed compounded pain and scar creams, marketers for the creams and Tricare beneficiaries who obtained compounded creams with their Tricare prescription benefits.
“Exhaustive investigative work by FBI and [Defense Criminal Investigative Service] special agents and investigators not only led to today’s arrests, but to the identification and seizure of millions in assets that these defendants derived from their participation in this massive scheme that caused the Tricare health insurance program…to suffer more than $100 million in actual losses,” said U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
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