A Michigan pharmacist learned his fate regarding a massive multi-year fraud scheme on Oct. 21, receiving a federal prison sentence of more than six years for billing insurance giants for medications that never actually existed.
Isaiah Okoh, 55, of Sterling Heights, was handed an 80-month sentence for orchestrating a plan that defrauded health care systems out of millions. According to federal court documents, Okoh utilized three separate pharmacies to run the operation between 2019 and 2022.
The premise of the scheme was simple but lucrative: bill insurers for prescription drugs that were never dispensed to patients…