Medicaid Data Breach (2020)

Four people, including two doctors, were charged Tuesday with operating a pill-mill scheme by stealing the Medicaid information of homeless people and veterans living in three Tioga rowhouses and writing fake prescriptions in their names, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday. Between 2015 and 2017, the two physicians allegedly wrote 1,009 fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone and Xanax, totaling 99,753 pills with a street value of nearly $2 million, under the names of more than 100 tenants living in the three properties. The scheme cost Medicaid nearly $30,500, officials said.