Fraud at EOPYY: Some other 100 docs focused for overprescribing

100 docs who seem to be over-prescribing are within the points of interest of the competent auditing government, after the revelation of the fraud circles on the expense of EOPYY, inflicting the Group greater than 3.5 million euros in harm.

The 2 really well structured and well-staffed legal organizations proceeded with false prescriptions and digital executions from the pharmacies. The arrangements had been traded outside and inside Greece.

A complete of 16 individuals of the organizations had been arrested by way of the commercial police, amongst them, 4 docs, homeowners and workers of pharmacies in addition to a clinical customer. The 3 docs had been heads of 1 group, whilst in the second one he used to be a health care provider of the Central Greece Well being Middle. The pharmacists operating with the 2 legal teams had been not unusual.

Their plan used to be printed after two girls complained to EOPYY that they won a message to execute a prescription that they’d now not prescribed.

To these arrested, who used 3,516 A.M.Ok.A. and falsely issued 90,186 prescriptions, used to be charged with 8 felonies, together with directing a legal group and two misdemeanors.

How they removed EOPYY

“The medicine had been explicit, so there have been random AMKA choices, the place the medication had been prescribed. Those pharmacies had been reaping the cash from EOPYY”, Giorgos Nychas, elector of the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Affiliation, informed MEGA.

“Pharmacists don’t have any get admission to to the affected person’s document. Most effective docs have the fitting to go into the affected person’s document in actual time and test what has been written, when and the way repeatedly.”

It’s famous that the investigation of the government recognized particular person false prescriptions even 9 years in the past, from 2015.

Some of the key individuals of the hoop, a pathologist who lived in Cyprus, falsely prescribed the drug, paid the quantity akin to the participation of the insured and after exporting it, offered it for fifty euros every.

Inside of 3 years, from 2020 to January 2024, he had issued 27,162 prescriptions, with a complete worth of 724,815.01 euros, an quantity that used to be now not integrated within the qualified lack of the EOPYY, as reported by way of ERT.

The 50-year-old physician

Because the police editor of “To Vima” and “Ta Nea” newspapers, Vassilis Lambropoulos, printed to MEGA, a number one function used to be additionally performed by way of a 50-year-old lady from a Balkan nation, who in recent times held a vital place at Hippocrates health facility. Actually, in keeping with the similar file, the 50-year-old had the location of Curator within the Emergency division.

This actual lady had not too long ago been assigned to the Ultrasound division. So although he used to be in a radiodiagnostic box he looked to be prescribing medication for abdomen illnesses, nutrients and different medication, with the overall value to the State particularly for those medication amounting to 38 thousand euros.

The lady in query, with a purpose to paintings at Hippocrates, additionally entered right into a felony dispute with the State.

The video doc

Within the period in-between, a video-document displays individuals of the hoop sporting containers and luggage to pharmacies, confirming the unlawful trafficking of pharmaceutical arrangements.