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# Guilty Plea in Compounded Drug Kickback Scheme
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/guilty-plea-in-compounded-drug-kickback-scheme/
- Published: 2022-02-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T17:32:54.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5151175

The Department of Justice says a Florida man has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback law. A department [statement](https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/florida-man-admits-role-35-million-pharmacy-compounded-medication-scheme?ref=fdaweb.com) says **Anderson Triggs**, Palm City, FL, conspired with others from 2014 through 2016 to use Main Avenue Pharmacy, Clifton, NJ, to run a kickback scheme involving compounded drugs. The department says Triggs started as a consultant to the pharmacy and later became a board member of its corporate parent. The scheme revolved around identifying compounded drugs that would yield exorbitant reimbursements from health insurers, the statement says.

Doctors who signed prescriptions for compounded medications that were filled at the pharmacy frequently had never even spoken to patients or examined them, the department says. Once the prescriptions were signed, they were returned to the marketing company that transmitted them to Main Avenue Pharmacy, which filled them and submitted claims to health insurers.

“On compounded medications alone,” the department says, “Main Avenue received over $34 million in reimbursements from healthcare benefit programs, approximately $8 million of which was paid by federal payers. Triggs earned over $900,000 through the course of the scheme.”