By Action News Jax Staff May 19, 2023
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Mario Correa Jackson, 38, was charged with illegally soliciting and receiving healthcare kickbacks as well as illegally offering and paying health care kickbacks.
According to the Department of Justice, Jackson received illegal healthcare kickbacks for recruiting individuals to sign up for prescription compound creams.
While working in the linen department of the NAS JAX Hospital, Jackson specifically targeted members of the military to ensure that the military members’ health insurance, TRICARE, would pay for the cost of the compound creams focusing on pain, scar, and migraine creams because they were the most lucrative for kickback purposes.
The compound creams themselves cost TRICARE on average tens of thousands of dollars per cream. In addition to receiving kickbacks for receiving his own creams, Jackson also paid kickbacks to others once he had signed them up to get their creams and automatic refills, regardless of whether they actually needed the creams.
DOJ says, Jackson was responsible for signing up at least 40 individuals, for whom he would receive an additional kickback for recruiting them as “patients.” Once the individuals showed proof of obtaining their prescription cream, Jackson paid them their illegal kickbacks of several hundreds of dollars per cream they received.
Jackson faces a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment on each of the charges. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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