{"id":152650,"date":"2024-01-30T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152650"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:43:21","slug":"tennesse-couple-committed-tricare-fraud-spent-lavishly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152650","title":{"rendered":"Tennesse couple committed TRICARE fraud, spent lavishly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Collins, 59, and Ashley Collins, 37, defrauded over $65 million from TRICARE. The Collinses ran a medical clinic that leveraged a network of doctors and nurse practitioners to bring them customers who used TRICARE. This network apparently prescribed prescriptions that were not needed, and then referred them to this clinic. The clinic charged TRICARE thousands of dollars beyond the actual cost for the prescriptions.<\/p>\n

From military.com:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

From 2014 to May 2015, the Collinses ran a medical clinic that used a network of doctors and a nurse practitioner to recruit service members and other Tricare beneficiaries to receive specialty medications they didn’t need in return for kickbacks.<\/p>\n

The prescriptions were then filled by a pharmacy in Bountiful, Utah, which billed Tricare at amounts of $10,000, and in some cases up to $20,000, per prescription — enough for the Collinses to cover the cost of beneficiaries’ copayments, provide payments to participants and spend lavishly on themselves.<\/p>\n

According to the Justice Department, the Collinses used their taxpayer-funded wealth to finance a lavish lifestyle, purchasing an 82-foot yacht, two Aston Martins and other luxury vehicles, three pieces of real estate in Tennessee, gold and silver bars, and a multimillion-dollar investment annuity.<\/p>\n

“Today, defendants who defrauded millions of tax dollars intended for the care of our nation’s service members were held accountable for their crimes. Yachts and Aston Martins are a fantasy now, and prison is the reality,” U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Collinses are among hundreds of defendants pursued by the Justice Department in the largest case of medical fraud in the Pentagon’s history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You could get more information form military.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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