The United States has obtained a civil judgment against a Batesville, Mississippi man for his role in orchestrating a commission-based referral scheme targeting federal healthcare programs, in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Anti-Kickback Statute. On March 16, 2026, a federal judge entered judgment against 67-year-old Robert L. Crites, the owner of Health Services Plus and TriCom, LLC, and a contractor of Extraordinary Scripts, Inc., in the amount of $31,039,134.82. According to court records, Crites and others associated with Extraordinary Scripts participated in an illegal kickback scheme in which they identified and referred patients across the country to Cloverland Pharmacy in Montgomery, Alabama. Crites primarily recruited beneficiaries of TRICARE, the healthcare program for members of the US military and their families. In turn, the pharmacy paid Crites and his co-conspirators kickbacks for each referral. The $31,039,134.82 judgment against Crite includes $16,342,424.82 in damages — which is three times the $5,447,474.94 in losses sustained by TRICARE — as required under the False Claims Act, as well as $14,696,710 in civil penalties imposed by the court. Crites was the last remaining defendant in the case. The United States previously settled with five other co-defendants named in the suit as well as others involved in a parallel civil forfeiture action.