TX-AG v. Mohamad Mokbel

Mohamad Mokbel was convicted on 15 counts of healthcare fraud for a pharmaceutical-compounding fraud scheme. According to TX-AG, Mokbel orchestrated the fraudulent billing of expensive topical creams through his company, 4M Pharmaceuticals, leading to over $160 million in illicit claims. Mokbel operated 14 pharmacies using straw owners, fraudulently billing government health care programs for medically unnecessary topical creams and other medications and purchasing beneficiaries’ personal information and submitting falsified prescriptions.

Summary generated from official Texas Attorney General press release