JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Federal prosecutors announced charges against two men accused of taking part in a Jacksonville health care fraud scheme involving more than 20,000 claims for HIV medication and about $51 million in alleged losses.
U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe said the scheme targeted Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers from 2023 through late 2025. Prosecutors allege the defendants arranged prescriptions for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, for people who did not request or need the medication and had not been evaluated by a medical professional.
“The people that received these medications did not need them and did not want them,” Kehoe said…