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Texas

STONE LOUGHLIN & SWANSON, LLP

  512-343-1385

Crime doesn’t pay forever. On October 11, 2022, Ms. Khyati Undavia, owner of Memorial Compounding Pharmacy, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen.  Ms. Undavia was indicted on July 9, 2021 for conspiracy to defraud federal government programs by billing for compounded drugs that were not medically necessary and that she paid doctors an illegal kickback to prescribe.  She pled guilty on October 12, 2021. The judgment against Ms. Undavia orders her to pay restitution of six million dollars to Tricare and six million dollars to the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (DOL-OWCP).  

Memorial Compounding Pharmacy was also active in the Texas workers’ compensation system.  The Division issued numerous medical fee dispute decisions ordering carriers to pay Memorial for its expensive compounded topical creams on the grounds that Memorial didn’t have to get preauthorization. Nonetheless, at least three different SOAH administrative law judges have reached the opposite conclusion that Memorial was required to obtain preauthorization for its compounded creams and therefore, it should not be paid.  Upon her release, Ms. Undavia will be excluded from participating as a provider in Medicare, Medicaid, and all Federal health care programs. However, the judgment does not prevent her from participating in the Texas workers’ compensation system.  We may see her again one day.
 
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