A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN ANNOUNCES RECOVERY OF $250,000 FROM ROCHESTER PHARMACY TO PAY BACK STATE IN MEDICAID FRAUD CASE
ROCHESTER– Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that Tops Market Pharmacy, with corporate headquarters in Williamsville, Erie County, has paid the state nearly $250,000 in restitution to resolve a Medicaid fraud case involving the misdeeds of a former pharmacist in one of their Rochester stores. Elizabeth Johnson, 49, of Rochester, was suspended from practice and excluded from the Medicaid program, but continued to dispense prescription medications while working at Tops Market Pharmacy.