HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced criminal charges this week against a Philadelphia pharmacy accused of dispensing unregulated HIV medications while fraudulently billing Medicaid and Medicare for more than $2 million in reimbursements.
The investigation centers on Surnil Pharmacy, Inc., which operated under the name Haussemann’s Pharmacy at a location on West Girard Avenue. According to investigators, the pharmacy’s owner, Subhash Patel, allegedly bypassed federally mandated drug sourcing protocols, acquiring and distributing HIV medications from unauthorized suppliers. Those medications were then billed to government health programs as if they had come from approved wholesale distributors.
The Office of Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Section charged the corporation with three counts of Medicaid fraud, one count of theft by deception, and one count of violating the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device, and Cosmetics Act…