德州骨科医生收回扣开不必要药膏被判102个月：涉案账单1.45亿美元
2026年2月24日，美国司法部宣布，位于德克萨斯州科林县麦金尼市的骨科医生 Michael Taba（61岁）被判处102个月联邦监禁，并被判令支付超过1300万美元赔偿。他收受药房老板的贿赂与回扣，为联邦工伤人员开具医学上不必要的复方药膏，涉案欺诈账单达1.45亿美元，此案在德州北区联邦法院审理。
据法庭文件与庭审证据，Taba 的同案被告在 Fort Worth 与 Arlington 两市经营三家药房，向 Taba 等医生支付了数百万美元非法贿赂与回扣。这些复方药膏由未经培训的青少年在药房后间调配，每份成本约15美元，却向劳工部工伤赔偿计划最高申报16000美元一份。出庭作证的患者说，这些药膏没有效果，有的还引起疼痛、刺激的皮疹。
2014年5月至2017年3月，这些药房就 Taba 等医生转介的不必要处方向劳工部工伤赔偿计划与蓝十字蓝盾申报超过1.45亿美元，实际获付超过9000万美元。2023年11月16日，德州北区联邦陪审团裁定 Taba 替代起诉书中的全部罪名成立，包括一项共谋医疗保健欺诈与三项医疗保健欺诈。
司法部刑事司助理部长 A. Tysen Duva 说，这项判决是检方与机构伙伴多年努力的结果，也提醒医疗专业人员，违背社会对他们的信任牟利必将被调查起诉。劳工部督察长 Anthony P. D'Esposito 说，Taba 接受贿赂与回扣，为受伤的联邦工作人员开出数千份不必要的复方药处方，把非法利润置于患者安全之上。此案由邮政督察长办公室、劳工部督察长办公室、退伍军人事务部督察长办公室与国税局刑事调查部门调查，司法部刑事司欺诈科审判律师 Ethan Womble 与代理助理科长 Catherine Wagner 负责起诉。
Texas Orthopedic Surgeon Sentenced to 102 Months in $145 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
On February 24, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Dr. Michael Taba, 61, an orthopedic surgeon from McKinney, in Collin County, Texas, had been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $13 million in restitution. Taba accepted bribes and kickbacks from pharmacy owners to prescribe medically unnecessary compound creams to injured federal workers, in a scheme with $145 million in fraudulent billings, in a case heard in the Northern District of Texas.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Taba's co-defendants owned and operated three pharmacies in Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas, and paid Taba and other doctors millions of dollars in illegal bribes and kickbacks. The compounds were mixed in the back rooms of the pharmacies by untrained teenagers at a cost of around $15 per prescription, then billed to the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs for as much as $16,000 per prescription. Patients who received the creams testified that the creams were ineffective and, in some instances, caused painful, irritating skin rashes.
Between May 2014 and March 2017, the pharmacies billed the DOL-OWCP and Blue Cross Blue Shield more than $145 million and were paid more than $90 million for unnecessary prescriptions referred by Taba and other medical providers. On November 16, 2023, a federal jury in the Northern District of Texas convicted Taba on all counts of the superseding indictment, including one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and three counts of health care fraud.
Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said the sentence is the result of years of tireless efforts by prosecutors and agency partners, and a reminder that medical professionals who violate the trust society places in them for personal enrichment will be investigated and prosecuted. Inspector General Anthony P. D'Esposito of the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General said Taba accepted bribes and kickbacks for writing thousands of prescriptions for unnecessary compounded medications issued to injured federal workers covered by the DOL-OWCP, putting illegal profits above patients' safety. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, the DOL-OIG, the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, and IRS Criminal Investigation investigated the case. Trial Attorney Ethan Womble and Acting Assistant Chief Catherine Wagner of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section prosecuted the case.
来源：美国司法部
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