Grow, 46, indicted in 2016 in a Miami federal court, faced a maximum 36-year sentence for 52 charges.<\/p>\n
Grow was sentenced to 262 months of imprisonment, or 21 years and eight months, and ordered to pay $18.8 million in restitution.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, Grow solicited and received kickbacks, or negotiated bribes, for Tricare beneficiaries who ordered medications between September 2014 and June 2015.<\/p>\n
Some of the charges Grow faced included five counts of money laundering, eight counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and 28 counts of receipts and payments of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program. He was convicted on 17 counts in February.<\/p>\n
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Also in February, the court ordered Grow to forfeit property that includes his 2014 Porsche, which was seized in 2016; about $1.7 million from his Bank of America account, and nearly $1 million from his company, MGTEN Marketing Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Talk about squandering opportunities, Grow played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons before he decided on a life of crime. I hope it was worth it. Shane Matthews, who played for the NFL for fourteen seasons was sentenced to three months in jail for his role in Grow’s scheme. <\/p>\n
Court documents say through MGTEN Marketing Group, Grow received nearly $20 million in kickbacks from Patient Care America, a Broward County compounding pharmacy, in exchange for recruiting and referring patients to the pharmacy who were covered by the Tricare health care insurance program.<\/p>\n
In all, Tricare paid about $40 million for the medications for its patients to PCA. PCA, which contracted with Grow, paid him half the reimbursements. Grow kept about $10 million for himself and paid his team of sales representatives the remaining amount, according to court documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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