Indictment Unsealed Charging Mangum Pharmacist with Over $1 Million in Health Care Fraud
OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal indictment has been unsealed charging JEFFREY SCOTT TERRY, 37, of Mangum, Oklahoma, with forty counts of using his pharmacy to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter.
"Protecting the health care system from fraud is critical to the stability and viability of the Medicare and Medicaid programs," said Mr. Troester. "We are proud to have an active partnership with Attorney General Mike Hunter and his office where we work collaboratively together to fight health care fraud."
"The ability to combine state and federal resources is one of our best assets when fighting fraud and corruption," Attorney General Hunter said. "I appreciate Mr. Troester and his team for continuing to collaborate with us in cracking down on healthcare fraud in the state and for helping us hold perpetrators accountable for these types of crimes. We must do everything we can to protect the Medicaid system, which serves Oklahomans in need."
According to an indictment filed on March 5 and unsealed on March 29, Terry was a licensed pharmacist who began operating Bratton Drug at 109 S. Oklahoma in Mangum in August 2015. Both the Oklahoma Health Care Authority—which administers Medicaid under the name SoonerCare—and Medicare reimbursed Bratton Drug for prescriptions and pharmaceutical products it dispensed.
Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/indictment-unsealed-charging-mangum-pharmacist-over-1-million-health-care-fraud