Patients would obtain blank, pre-signed prescriptions, completed by Bummer and others. Shortly thereafter, the patients would fill the prescriptions at pharmacies that accepted Medicaid or Medicare.
Unknown to Bummer, federal agents were hot on his trail, and they marked the blank, pre-signed prescriptions with invisible ink.
According to information Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cessar gave the court, “The prescriptions were in the trunk of a car traveling between RTA locations and were pre-signed by several RTA physicians. Patients received the marked scripts without seeing Dr. Bummer.”
A ‘Bummer’ for Bummer
Bummer faces sentencing on January 9 at 11 a.m. The law provides for a total per count sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of $500,000, or both, for the controlled substances offenses. Bummer faces an additional maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years and fine of $250,000 for the health care fraud charge.
