Scandal for 75 million euros: charge against Hamburg pharmaceutical heads!

Scandal for 75 million euros: charge against Hamburg pharmaceutical heads!

The focus of a large billing fraud is the Alanta Health Group from Hamburg, whose responsible people were charged by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office due to particularly severe bribery and gang -based billing fraud. The indictment includes four senior employees of the Alanta Health Group and two pharmacists. In total, it is about payments of over 75 million euros, which were submitted illegally by statutory health insurance companies by false drug regulations. These processes were uncovered by a search of the company in 2019, in which more than 6,000 file folders and around 100 data carriers were ensured, which makes raids one of the largest in the history of the Hamburg public prosecutor, such as Welt

The charges include that the accused doctors have bribed to prescribe high -priced cancer medication (cytostatics) from their own pharmacies. For this they have acquired several medical care centers and the Mümmelmannsberg district clinic in order to avoid the legal ban on cooperation with contract doctors. According to the Pharmacy adhoc reported a total of 50,000 information on misconduct, many of them in nursing and at medicinal products.

Increasing fraud cases in healthcare

A relatively high damage of almost 86 million euros in the pharmaceutical and association means has been determined, and there is a growing problem with fake recipes for expensive medication. In addition to the cases in the medication area that are treated here, the health insurers also reported fraud attempts for insured and employer -related services.

Overall, the large number of fraudulent activities in the healthcare system not only harbage financial consequences, but also raises questions about the integrity of the system. The public prosecutor's office will negotiate the case in front of the economic criminal chamber of the district court, while the investigation against the doctors is continued in parallel