Samrat Mukherjee, a paramedic, admitted to posing as a physician and fabricating credentials, including a fake medical degree and residency match letter. He then called in prescriptions to pharmacies for himself and others. Using the identities of two physicians, for their licensing numbers, he claimed to have the authority to write prescriptions. He caused the pharmacies to submit claims for reimbursement to Medicaid, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and other insurers. By falsely representing himself as a medical doctor, he was also given physician access privileges at several hospitals, where he spent time seeing patients in the intensive care unit and other areas. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdla/pr/baton-rouge-man-falsely-holding-himself-medical-doctor-pleads-guilty-false-statements
I represent pharmacist who submitted fake prescriptions through his retail pharmacy computers, wherein he forged numerous physicians’ prescriptive authority to submit the appropriate paperwork for the computer system to release the prescriptions to him. He was feeding his opioid addiction. He was not, but could have been, charged with violating http://18 U.S. Code § 1028A – Aggravated identity theft as he submitted over 1000 prescriptions for over 13000 pills. Aggravated identity theft is a charge for which every count to which you either plead guilty or are found guilt must be served consecutively, not concurrently to any other sentence imposed. The statutory language is:
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