August Trial Scheduled For Physician, Pharmacist Accused Of Defrauding TRICARE

Mealey's (June 26, 2019, 12:27 PM EDT) -- HATTIESBURG, Miss. — A federal magistrate judge in Mississippi on June 24 scheduled an Aug. 18 trial date for a physician and a pharmacist charged with submitting more than $7 million in bills for medically unnecessary compounded medications to TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans and their respective family members, and private health care benefit programs (United States v. Shahjahan Sultan, M.D., et al., No. 19cr28, S.D. Miss.)....