With the rise of online health and wellness companies offering concierge services and treatments (think GLP-1s), compounded medications are in the spotlight.
These custom medications rely on pharmacists and doctors collaborating to create formulas that meet individual patients’ needs.
However, doctors can prescribe and marketers can refer unnecessary medications in exchange for illegal kickbacks. And pharmacists can use unnecessary ingredients to inflate the price of prescriptions. Both of these schemes were central to a $110 million-dollar kickback conspiracy our special agents brought down in southeast Texas. Continue reading here USPS OIG-led Investigation Returns Over $39M to Fraud Victims | Office of Inspector General OIG
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