Fraudulent Prescription Program Shut Down In Carroll

Area police shut down a prescription program in Carrollton and Bowdon, they say was using fake documents to file for free medications, then pocketing a handling fee and yearly membership fee from area clients. Carrollton Police Department Investigator Meredith Hoyle-Browning says on behalf of it’s customers, some of whom were not financially challenged, the business would send away for free medication through programs aimed at low or fixed income consumers, then sell the items locally at a lower price than what is available by regular means. “Patients who are indigent, who would actually qualify for this program, if they did this application on their own, and had their doctor sign it—then the medications would be free. They do not have to pay anything for these assistance programs,” she says. “But, what this “Medication Program” was doing, they would say- charging a fee for handling the paper work, but they would charge $66 per prescription and so these clients were paying for what they could be getting for free.”

Police said the business was stockpiling and distributing medications that workers had received illegally. They reportedly seized between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of prescription medication from “The Medication Program.”