Doctor sentenced to 3 mos. in compounded medicine case that defrauded CT taxpayers for $878K

A physician was sentenced to three months in prison Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven for her part in a scheme with her husband to defraud Connecticut’s state employee prescription benefit plan out of $877,882, by submitting tainted prescriptions in 2014 and 2015 for expensive compounded medications produced by a Mississippi-based pharmacy.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Meyer imposed the sentence on Dr. Kakra Gyambibi, 38, now of Darnestown, Md. after having lived in Fairfield County, for one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, to which she pleaded guilty in January under an agreement with the office of U.S. Attorney John H. Durham that 18 other criminal counts against her would be dropped.

Meyer also ordered three years of supervised release, after Gyambibi completes her sentence — which she is to begin serving July 15 at a federal correctional facility that has not yet been designated.

Gyambibi admitted to participating in the scheme with her her husband, Kwasi Gyambibi, 41, who was convicted after a trial on two counts of health care fraud in February, and still is awaiting sentencing by Meyer in his own case.

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