Tag: Trivillian’s Pharmacy

A Charleston pharmacy will spend three years on probation for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.

U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says Trivillian’s Pharmacy and its former owner, Paula J. Butterfield, were sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston. Butterfield will spend a year and a day in prison.

Butterfield pleaded guilty in February to making a false statement in a health care matter. She also pleaded guilty on behalf of the pharmacy to health care fraud and misbranding drugs.

Goodwin says the pharmacy admitted to dispensing compounded drugs and generic drugs and billing Medicare and Medicaid for brand name drugs, which are more expensive. Butterfield admitted to submitting false claims to Medicare on her own behalf.

Trivillian’s will forfeit more than $355,000 from the scheme to the government.

A Charleston pharmacy owner faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making a false statement in a health care matter.

Paula Butterfield also pleaded guilty on behalf of her business, Trivillian’s Pharmacy, to health care fraud and misbranding drugs.

U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says the pharmacy faces a fine, up to 10 years of probation and restitution.

Butterfield entered the pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston. She and the pharmacy are scheduled to be sentenced May 28.

Goodwin says Butterfield admitted that the pharmacy dispensed compounded drugs and generic drugs and billed Medicare and Medicaid for brand name drugs, which are more expensive. Butterfield submitted false claims to Medicare on her own behalf.