Last month, eight people in Florida were charged in a massive insurance fraud scheme that ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
A number of compounding pharmacies in the Tampa Bay and Miami areas were found to be submitting fraudulent reimbursement claims and covering them up with bribes and kickbacks; experts believe that thousands of consumers had their personal information misused in the scheme. All of this comes as a key federal agency is considering stricter oversight of the growing—and dangerously under-regulated—field of compounding pharmacies in the United States.
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