Prescriptions R US

The Toms River operator of a prominent sports medicine practice is sentenced to a year and a day in prison, for taking bribes in excess of $60,000 from a Lakewood druggist for referrals, and fudging records to collect insurance reimbursements.

Another defendant pleads guilty in a federal probe of a Lakewood compounding pharmacy, and heads for sentencing.

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.

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.

The president of a Lakewood compounding pharmacy faces up to five years in prison for fraud that federal prosecutors say cost health insurors and federal health benefit programs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A pharmacist with a compounding operation in Lakewood is charged with funneling at least $50,000 to a Toms River doctor for prescription referrals.