Elmostafa Charif, Designer Drug Trafficking, New Jersey 2024 · Massachusetts
Ricardo Reid, Mail and Wire Fraud Conspiracy, New Jersey 2024 · Virginia
Javan Smith, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, New Jersey · Connecticut
Anthony Warner, Currency Smuggling, New Jersey 2016 · New York
Michael Conway, Wire Fraud, New Jersey 2016 · New York

Table of Contents

Toggle

A Plus Pharmacy LLC, a former owner of A Plus Pharmacy in Manalapan, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $350,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing a federal health care program for certain medications that it never dispensed.
- Key Facts

A Plus Pharmacy LLC, a former owner of A Plus Pharmacy in Manalapan, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $350,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing a federal health care program for certain medications that it never dispensed.

According to the contentions of the United States in the settlement agreement, A Plus Pharmacy LLC caused the submission of claims for reimbursement to the Medicare Part D Program for certain drugs that were never dispensed to beneficiaries from January 1, 2015, through February 27, 2023. The government contends that inventory records showed that A Plus Pharmacy LLC did not purchase enough of these medications from wholesalers to fill the prescriptions billed to the federal health care program.

The resolution obtained in this matter was the result of a coordinated effort between the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the Justice Department’s Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch, Fraud Section, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert Toll and Kruti Dharia of the Opioid Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Unit and Senior Trial Counsel Jennifer Cihon in the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch (Fraud Section).

The government’s pursuit of these matters illustrates the government’s emphasis on combating healthcare fraud. One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Tips and complaints from all sources about potential fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement can be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services, at 1-800-HHS-TIPS (800-447-8477).

The claims settled by the agreement are allegations only, and there has been no admission of liability.

A Plus Pharmacy LLC, the former owner of A Plus Pharmacy, a pharmacy located in Manalapan, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $350,000.