Pharmacist sentenced to probation in Medicaid billing scheme

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas City pharmacist has been sentenced to three years of probation after he was caught in a $9.5 million Medicaid billing scheme.

The Kansas City Star reports 67-year-old Steven Baraban also agreed Tuesday to pay about $125,000 in restitution. That’s in addition to the $2.2 million that he paid to resolve his role in a whistleblower suit brought by a Lenexa, Kansas, pharmacist who worked under Baraban while he was in charge of a Stark Pharmacy that rented space from Research Medical Center.

Prosecutors said they agreed to a plea deal that gives Baraban no prison time because of the amount of money he has paid and because he agreed to surrender his Missouri pharmacist license. His Kansas license expires on Sunday.

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