
Pharmacy Store Employee Sentenced To Prison For Scheme To Defraud Health Care Benefit Programs
/ Published Jan. 15, 2015
U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Jigar Patel, age 27, of Columbia, Maryland, today to 13 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a scheme to defraud Medicaid, Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program by submitting false claims for prescription refills.