Stafford woman admits to bilking state insurance programs through compound pharmacy scheme

A Stafford woman has admitted in U.S. District Court in Camden that she took part in a conspiracy to defraud New Jersey’s health care benefits programs by submitting bogus claims for expensive, custom-made drugs from a compound pharmacist.

Kristie Masucci, 35, of the Cedar Run section of Stafford, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 5.

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Authorities said Masucci recruited people — teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees — to obtain pain, scar, anti-fungal and libido creams costing thousands of dollars a month from an out-of-state pharmacy.

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The unnamed out-of-state compounding pharmacy made more than $50 million in New Jersey, $1.88 million of it from Masucci and her recruits, authorities said. Masucci pocketed $388,608 from the scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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