Man Pleads to Pharmacy Shortage Fraud Scheme

Mohammad Hamdan, a pharmacist and business owner who engaged in a five-year pharmacy shortage fraud scheme at two separate pharmacies, pleaded guilty. At a hearing, Hamdan admitted to using his pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims for prescriptions even though the prescribed drugs were medically unnecessary or not actually dispensed. In many instances, the pharmacies lacked the inventory to dispense these drugs but billed health care insurers as though they had been dispensed. Read a story from Deadline Detroit and a Department of Justice press release.

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