Fla. Medicaid Fraud Costs Millions, Report Says FINAL Edition

High-priced medications for HIV and cancer have been especially vulnerable to fraud. They account for many of the drugs bought off the streets and later discovered in warehouses and drugstores, the report said. One wholesaler told the grand jury he bought $2.4 million of expensive AIDS medicine in j...

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Published inThe Washington post
Main Author Mary Pat Flaherty and Gilbert M. Gaul
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, D.C WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post 19.12.2003
Subjects
Grand juries
Medicaid
Medicaid fraud
Prescription drugs
Florida
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Summary:High-priced medications for HIV and cancer have been especially vulnerable to fraud. They account for many of the drugs bought off the streets and later discovered in warehouses and drugstores, the report said. One wholesaler told the grand jury he bought $2.4 million of expensive AIDS medicine in just the first quarter of 2002, most of it from a criminal enterprise dealing with Medicaid patients covered by the state health program for the poor. Medicaid patients caught selling their pharmaceuticals are not removed from the Florida program, and some doctors caught in schemes have been allowed to continue writing Medicaid prescriptions -- both failures that need to be corrected, the report said.
ISSN:0190-8286