AIDS Healthcare Foundation Accused Of $100 Million Kickback Scheme

AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a global nonprofit provider of HIV/AIDS medical care with over 350,000 patients, has been accused of defrauding federal healthcare programs over the past five years.

Allegations say the company may have raked in as much as $100 million in illegal kickbacks and referral fees.

Via Queerty:

In a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on April 3, whistleblowers Jack Carrel, Mauricio Ferrer, and Shawn Loftis, all of whom held management positions with AHF before being fired from their jobs after questioning the organization’s referral practices, claim AHF boosted funding from federal healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and Health and Human Services HIV/AIDS grant programs, by offering illegal kickbacks of $100 to employees who created false HIV/AIDS referrals, and $50 to patients who patronized its clinics and pharmacies.

According to the complaint, the fraud began back in 2010 and took place in 11 different states plus Washington, D.C., and resulting in AHF collecting more than $20 million a year off thousands of illegal referrals.

According to the three former managers, the fraud began in 2010 and took place over 11 states and the District of Columbia.

AHS has been extremely vocal in it's opposition to the use of Truvada as a daily HIV preventive.