A Northern Virginia doctor pleaded guilty Friday to a nearly $2 million health care fraud scheme that involved medically unnecessary pain and scar creams.
Leonard Rosen, 72, of Fairfax Station, has been a practicing obstetrician in the area since 1980.
He admitted at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that he struck a deal with a pharmacist to prescribe expensive compounded pain and scar creams and to direct those prescriptions to his pharmacies. Rosen received a kickback on the prescriptions.
The scheme cost insurers $1.8 million.
The pharmacist, Mohamed Abdalla, 48, of Allendale, New Jersey, was sentenced earlier this year to four years in prison.
Rosen is scheduled to be sentenced in December.
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