Seeking Medicare and Medicaid payments for prescriptions to patients who no longer breathe is something federal prosecutors frown at.
The defendant's business on Schaefer Road, north of Ford Road. (Photo: Yelp)
Those kind of billings are among new allegations against Haytham Fakih, 53-year-old owner of Trudell Pharmacy on Schaefer Road in Dearborn, Robert Snell reports in The Detroit News. He's accused of charging for medication prescribed to dead people in a case dating back to 2012.
Fakih also committed health care fraud by billing for expensive medication that was not dispensed to patients, prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint filed against the pharmacist in federal court Sunday. In all, the fraud cost more than $1.2 million, authorities allege. . . .
The investigation emerged publicly in September when federal agents seized more than $350,000 during a series of raids.
The defendant, free on $10,000 unsecured bond, could get up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, according to Snell. That's the penalty for greed, if proven.
