A Toms River osteopath might spend as many as five years in prison, for taking thousands of dollars to refer patients to two blood-testing lab companies.
The president and pharmacist-in-charge of Prescriptions R US in Lakewood is handed a 20-month prison term for slipping tens of thousands of dollars to doctors for prescription referrrals.
Two brothers from Colts Neck can expect prison terms of six-and-a-half years each for a complex medical insurance fraud scheme that involved manipulating crash victims and taking kickbacks from health providers and lawyers for referrals.
A Toms River-based sports doctor faces up to five years in prison for taking more than $60,000 in bribes from a Lakewood compound pharmacy owner, referring pain cream prescriptions on his behalf, and falsifying insurance documents.
A chiropractor from Manalapan with a practice in Elizabeth is one of seven practitioners charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of kickbacks from the same medical imaging firm for referrals.
A salesman from Holmdel faces a lengthy prison term when he's sentenced in November for his role in a multi-million-dollar kickback scheme centered in a Parsippany blood-testing lab.