InjectionA Cleveland, Tenn. doctor was sentenced to more than two years in prison Thursday for defrauding Medicare out of more than $7 million.
Dr. Raymond Sean Brown, 44, will serve 28 months in jail for “use of misbranded drugs with the intent to defraud.”
According to a plea agreement on file with the U.S. District Court, Brown fraudulently billed Medicare for Botox injections he didn’t give between May 2008 and December 2012. During that time, he received $7,482,968 in Medicare reimbursements for the bogus injections. The plea said that during that four-year period, Brown didn’t buy any FDA-approved Botox and 254 vials of non-FDA approved Botox, yet he billed Medicare for 17,766 vials. The plea agreement also indicated that by pleading guilty, Brown admitted that he received the Botox “in interstate commerce for delivery for pay which was misbranded and that he acted with intent to defraud or mislead.”
Brown was also ordered to forfeit $6.765 million from his bank accounts in December 2012, and pay an additional $717,000. Upon his release from prison, he will serve one year of supervised release.