LOUISVILLE – Two Bowling Green residents are facing criminal charges in connection with health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes. On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett announced the charges in the case, which was prosecuted in the Western District of Kentucky, as part of the Department of Justice’s 2023 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action.
Pharmacist Joseph Patrick Huff, 44, and Jenifer Huff, 44, of Bowling Green, were charged by superseding indictment on June 14, with one count of conspiracy to commit theft of medical products, one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances, six counts of health care fraud-Adderall fraud, four counts of health care fraud-Eliquis fraud, two counts of health care fraud-Nicotrol and Linzess fraud, one count aggravated identity theft, and one count of making a false writing.
The indictment charges the Huffs with conspiring to take, carry away, and conceal and knowingly possess, transport and traffic a pre-retail medical product, namely oxycodone and hydrocodone, with a value over $5000, and conspiring to sell and trade the oxycodone and hydrocodone for marijuana, methamphetamine, and cocaine.
Joseph Huff is charged with falsely and fraudulently billing various health care benefit programs for Adderall XR to obtain a higher reimbursement rate; falsely and fraudulently billing commercial insurance for dispensing Eliquis to a patient when in fact the patient never received the Eliquis medication; using the name and National Provider Identifier number of a physician without lawful authority when he billed Kentucky Medicaid for a prescription dispensed to Jenifer Huff; and filing a false DEA Form 106, reporting the theft of narcotics, which were not actually stolen.
Joseph Huff and Jenifer Huff are charged with falsely and fraudulently billing Kentucky Medicaid for prescriptions dispensed to Jenifer Huff when in fact no physician or nurse practitioner issued an order for the prescriptions.
The case is being investigated by the DEA, the Bowling Green/Warren County Drug Task Force, the Kentucky State Police, and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Office of Inspector General.
