(Sioux City)– A pharmacist who formerly owned and operated Medicap Pharmacy in Spencer has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison on health care fraud charges.
58-year-old David Easton of Everly received the sentence after pleading guilty September 17th of this year to two counts of healthcare fraud, one count of money laundering and one count of aggravated identity theft.
At the plea hearing, Easton admitted that from about 2003 to 2006 he defrauded Medicaid and Coventry Health Care out of more than $200,000 by submitting false claims for prescriptions. He used the identities and identification numbers of Medicaid patients when he submitted false claims to the Medicaid program. Court documents say Easton used some of the proceeds from his schemes to buy a Cadillac Escalade.
In addition to the prison term, Easton must also serve two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to make restitution of $165,170 to Medicaid and $35,616 to Coventry Health Care.
Easton was released on bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date to be set.
