A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to a brazen $5.6M health care fraud scheme and the illegal distribution of oxycodone. Ali Naserdean, 32, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, used his position as a pharmacy technician at three metro-Detroit pharmacies to bilk health care benefit programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.
According to court documents, Naserdean and his co-conspirator submitted false and fraudulent claims to health care benefit programs for prescription drugs that were not ordered by a doctor and never dispensed to the patient. They used forged prescriptions from doctors to hide their scheme, when the patient had never seen the listed doctor and the medication had never actually been prescribed.
Naserdean and his co-conspirator caused over $5.6 million of loss to Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Additionally, from 2019 through 2022, Naserdean provided unlawful prescriptions of oxycodone to drug traffickers in exchange for cash, without regard to whether the prescriptions were actually prescribed by physicians or dispensed in good faith.
Naserdean pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and possession with intent to illegally distribute oxycodone. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 1 and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The FBI Detroit Field Office, HHS-OIG, and the City of Dearborn Police Department investigated the case. Trial Attorney Jeffrey A. Crapko of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul A. Kuebler for the Eastern District of Michigan prosecuted the case.
This case is part of the Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program, which has charged more than 6,200 defendants who collectively billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $45 billion since 2007.
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Key Facts
- State: Michigan
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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