A Randolph County pharmacist is headed to prison after pleading guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies.
The U.S. attorney's office says 30-year-old Steven Gibson, owner of Gibson's Discount Drugs in Red Bud, received a sentence of nearly three years.
Court records show from December 2016 to February 2018, Gibson submitted nearly a thousand claims for "make believe" prescriptions under the names of his wife, family members, and pharmacy customers.
Gibson's total take exceeded $620,000 - money he has now been ordered to pay back in restitution. At the time of sentencing, Gibson had repaid only $30,000 and had otherwise failed to account for the rest of the money he stole.
A pharmacy customer discovered Gibson's crimes in late 2017, after she recognized that her son had been billed for expensive medications he had not received and called to complain. The pharmacist who took that call then discovered Gibson's fraud, quit her job, and notified authorities.
