Indiana pharmacist Kevin Foster was recently arrested and charged with Filling an Invalid Prescription for Legend Drugs by a Pharmacist, Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Terry Curry announced.
Foster was charged with five counts of the Class D felony on June 17. The investigation by the Marion County Prosecutor’s Grand Jury Division and the Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began after Foster was implicated in a related Medicaid fraud case. Local dentist Dr. Bernice Avant pled guilty in that case in January.
Foster allegedly filled prescriptions for Hydrocodone, Diazepam and Viscous Xylocaine that were sent to him by Avant between December 2011 and January 2012. Investigators interviewed pharmacy technicians at Meijer, Foster's ex-wife and his brother regarding the prescriptions. Although the prescriptions were issued for the pair by Avant, both his ex-wife and brother said that they had never been the dentist's patients and did not receive the medications.
Foster has bonded out. His next appearance in court is scheduled for 9 a.m. on July 14.
The National Healthcare Fraud Takedown was announced on June 22 by U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. The Medicare Fraud Strike Force swept through 36 federal districts, resulting in charges against 301 individuals for approximately $900 million in fraudulent billings. The criminal and civil charges include fraudulent billings for medical treatments, services and prescriptions related to the Medicare Part D prescription benefit program.
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