11th Circuit Affirms Health Care Fraud Convictions And Restitution Order

(August 18, 2023, 12:54 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 17 affirmed defendants’ health care and mail fraud convictions and restitution and forfeiture orders stemming from their involvement in a scheme to submit bills to insurance companies for medically unnecessary prescriptions for a compounding pharmacy’s drugs, but vacated and remanded one of the defendant’s aggravated identify theft convictions, finding that using another person’s identity information “was merely ancillary to the health care fraud.”...