Gloucester County Man Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for Healthcare Fraud

CAMDEN, N.J. – A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for defrauding his employer’s health insurance plan out of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded medications, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.

Christopher Gualtieri, 51, of Franklinville, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler to one count of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit health care and mail fraud and one count charging him with obtaining oxycodone through fraud. U.S. District Judge Christine P. O’Hearn imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

Compounded medications are specialty medications mixed by a pharmacist to meet the specific medical needs of an individual patient. Compounded drugs can be properly prescribed when a physician determines that an FDA-approved medication does not meet the health needs of a particular patient, such as if a patient is allergic to a dye or other ingredient.

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