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Mississippi Nurse Practitioner Sentenced for Role in TRICARE Scheme
A former nurse practitioner from Mississippi was sentenced to 42 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the TRICARE healthcare benefit program, which serves U.S. military, veterans and their families.
Susan K. Perry, 58, of Grand Bay, Alabama, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett of the Southern District of Mississippi. Perry will also serve three years of supervised release following her prison sentence and pay $1,375,692 in restitution.
Perry pleaded guilty on June 15 to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. She was charged in October 2017 in a 13-count indictment.
As part of her plea, Perry admitted to her role in a scheme to defraud healthcare benefit programs by prescribing medically unnecessary compounded medications to individuals who did not need the medications, sometimes without first examining those individuals.
Perry admitted that she knew Advantage Pharmacy, based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, would submit claims for reimbursement to healthcare benefit programs, including TRICARE, for compounded medications based on the prescriptions she signed. She further expected that the healthcare benefit programs would pay the claims.
From approximately January 2014 through April 2015, healthcare benefit programs, including TRICARE, reimbursed Advantage Pharmacy approximately $1,375,692 based on the claims submitted by Advantage Pharmacy in connection with the compounded medications that Perry prescribed.
The FBI, IRS-CI, DCIS, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and other government agencies investigated the case. Trial Attorneys Kate Payerle and Jared Hasten of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Helen Wall of the Southern District of Mississippi are prosecuting the case.
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Key Facts
- State: Mississippi
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime|Sex Crimes|Cybercrime|Public Corruption|Weapons|Human Trafficking|White Collar Crime|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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