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Pharmacy Will Pay $2.3M Restitution for Scheme Involving Unregulated HIV Meds

Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Philadelphia pharmacy will pay more than $2 million in restitution after pleading guilty to felony Medicaid Fraud and theft charges related to the dispensing of unregulated HIV medications. The business entity, Surnil Pharmacy, Inc. — which had a West Girard Avenue store location, Haussemann’s Pharmacy — pleaded guilty Wednesday in Philadelphia County Court. The company paid $2.3 million to Medicare and Medicaid in a court-ordered restitution. The Office of Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Section charged the company earlier this year for its role in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud the Medicaid and Medicare programs through reimbursements of HIV medications. The investigation revealed that HIV medications — an estimated 100,000 tablets — dispensed from the pharmacy were not from legitimate wholesale suppliers.