Mississippi

Doyle Beach guilty plea: 13 of 13 convicted in $400 million pain cream fraud

Glenn "Doyle" Beach Jr., 46, of Sumrall, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a two-count criminal information connected with the compounding pharmacy scheme that billed TRICARE and other health benefits providers of $400 million.

He faces up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines in addition to restitution of an amount that wasn’t disclosed at his plea hearing.

Beach was an owner/managing partner of Advantage Pharmacy when it was formed in 2008. Advantage was one of the pharmacies searched during a statewide, multi-agency operation on Jan. 21, 2016, that eventually was determined the key place where the fraud operations took place.

The pharmacy since has closed.

The scheme involved mass-produced prescriptions for expensive compounded pain creams and vitamin pills that cost more than $10,000 per prescription. Most of them were determined to be medically unnecessary.

Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/crime/2019/03/26/doyle-beach-pleads-guilty-400-million-fraud-scheme/3161364002/