An Arkansas physician convicted of a $12 million fraud scheme was sentenced to 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $4.63 million in restitution to Tricare, a military health insurer.
Joe David May, MD, 42, was convicted in May of 22 criminal counts, including conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, violating the anti-kickback statute, falsifying records and aggravated identity theft, according to an April 13 Justice Department news release.
Dr. May was at the center of a bogus prescription-drug assembly line. He rubber stamped 226 prescriptions, costing Tricare more than $4.63 million, for people he did not know and did not treat, the release said.
All nine of his co-conspirators pleaded guilty to conspiracy, according to the release.