If you profit from the unlawful distribution of controlled substances, you will be held accountable, Garland said in a statement. In the Arizona case, prosecutors have accused two owners of wound care companies of accepting more than $330m in kickbacks as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare for amniotic wound grafts.
Nurse practitioners were pressured to apply the wound grafts to elderly patients who did not need them. Some patients died the day they received the grafts or within days, court papers say. Owners of the wound care companies, Alexandra Gehrke and Jeffrey King, were arrested at the Phoenix airport as they were boarding a flight to London.
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