The former manager of a Med-Fast pharmacy in Beaver County was sentenced Tuesday to probation and community service for her role in a conspiracy to re-use medications left over from nursing homes by repackaging them for resale to other nursing homes.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab imposed two years of probation on Correna Pfeiffer, who managed the Aliquippa Med-Fast Institutional Pharmacy, and ordered her to perform 150 hours of community service.
The case against her was part of an investigation into Med-Fast that ended last week with the announcement of a settlement between the company and the U.S. attorney's office to resolve criminal and civil allegations of fraud that first surfaced in two lawsuits in 2013. Pfeiffer, who was charged with conspiracy in 2015, was the first Med-Fast employee to be named in the investigation. She waived indictment and pleaded guilty.
As manager of the Med-Fast from 2009 to 2013, she had been in charge of employees who prepared prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes.
Med-Fast drivers picked up the unused medications from the nursing homes and delivered them to the pharmacy operation on Sheffield Avenue, where employees removed them from the packages and returned them to stock to be re-used in other prescriptions.
The result was that drugs from different makers and with different expiration dates were mixed in with other medications in stock bottles.
The employees were then told to use fake labels and send the medications out for resale to other nursing homes, according to agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Gino Cordisco, the former vice president of store operations for the Aliquippa-based company, and a subsidiary, Iserve Technologies, were charged in September as part of the settlement and have indicated they will plead guilty.
Post-gazette
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