A massive crackdown on healthcare fraud by the US Justice Department has seen charges laid against 412 people including pharmacists, doctors and nurses.
One case involves a pharmacist who was charged with submitting US$192 million in false and fraudulent claims to health care benefit programs "for dispensing compounded medications that were not medically necessary, and often based on prescriptions induced by illegal kickback payments," the department said.
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