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Stamford Health Care Provider Sentenced For Million-Dollar Fraud Scheme
A health care provider in Fairfield County will spend time in prison after being found guilty by a federal jury in Connecticut of a million-dollar fraud scheme. Kwasi Gyambibi, of Stamford, was found guilty of two counts of health care fraud-related to fraudulent prescriptions for compound drugs that were submitted to Advantage Pharmacy in March 2015 to the tune of $1.5 million in February last year. This week, Gyambibi was sentenced to 12 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release. Gyambibi worked at UConn-Stamford with his wife, Kakra, was a physician at Stamford H…
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Former CT Physician Pays $300K To Settle False Claims Act Allegations
A former physician in Connecticut has reached an agreement with the federal government to pay $300,000 for issuing and approving invalid prescriptions. Philippe Chain agreed to the civil settlement to resolve the allegations that he violated the False Claims Act, U.S. Attorney John Durham said. Chain, who currently has a practice in Florida, previously practiced medicine in Connecticut. He also worked for CallMD, a telemedicine company in Nevada that involved him prescribing compound medications to TRICARE beneficiaries. Durham said that “TRICARE is the federal health care program for act…
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Quest Diagnostics Says Nearly 12M May Have Had Financial, Personal Info Exposed In Data Breach
Millions of Quest Diagnostics patients may have had their financial, medical and other personal information exposed in a data breach, the company announced on Monday. Officials at Quest Diagnostics said Monday that 11.9 million peoples’ personal information, including Social Security numbers may have been compromised after one of its billing collectors reported a data breach. According to Quest Diagnostics, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) notified the company and a Quest contractor that uses AMCA’s billing services last month. The number of patients impacted was only recently dete…
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Jury Finds Health-Care Provider In Fairfield County Guilty Of Fraud
A federal jury in Connecticut found a Fairfield County health care provider guilty of a million dollar fraud scheme. Kwasi Gyambibi, of Stamford, was found guilty of two counts of health care fraud related to fraudulent prescriptions for compound drugs that were submitted to Advantage Pharmacy in March 2015 to the tune of $1.5 million. Gyambibi worked at UConn-Stamford with his wife, Kakra, was a physician at Stamford Hospital. According to U.S. Attorney John Durham, “Advantage Pharmacy was a compounding pharmacy located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. As a compounding pharmacy, Advanta…