NY-AG v. Hin T. Wong

Hin T. Wong allegedly defrauded Medicaid through a multi-million dollar scheme involving HIV drugs, according to NY-AG. Wong admitted to paying or directing employees to pay kickbacks to undercover agents from the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in return for their agreement to fill their HIV prescriptions at her pharmacies. Wong’s pharmacies then billed and were eventually paid over $60,000 by Medicaid for refills on prescriptions that Wong’s pharmacies either did not dispense or that were predicated on the payment of an unlawful kickback, according to NY-AG. From January 2014 to August 2017, Wong’s pharmacies allegedly did not purchase a sufficient inventory of medication from licensed drug wholesalers to account for the quantity of medication for which Wong’s pharmacies billed Medicaid and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, according to NY-AG. Relying on thousands of false claims for payment filed by Wong’s pharmacies, Medicaid and Medicaid MCOs paid Wong’s pharmacies over $3.5 million, according to NY-AG.

Summary generated from official New York Attorney General press release