Our Community Pharmacy (Candida Webb, owner)
Outcome
Our Community Pharmacy and owner Candida Webb settled for $100,000 and accepted 5-year OIG exclusion for paying cash to Medicare customers to induce them to purchase drugs from the pharmacy.
Details
Our Community Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA) — Kickbacks to Medicare Beneficiaries
Outcome: Settled for $100,000 and accepted 5-year exclusion from federal healthcare programs for paying cash incentives to a Medicare customer to induce them to purchase drugs from the pharmacy.
Our Community Pharmacy (OCP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and its owner Candida Webb, violated the Anti-Kickback provisions of the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by paying cash to at least one Medicare customer to induce them to purchase drugs from OCP. The scheme involved two separate cash payments to the same customer on two separate occasions, with the payments designed to steer the Medicare beneficiary's drug purchases to OCP rather than competing pharmacies.
Paying remuneration — whether cash, gifts, or other benefits — to Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries to induce them to use a particular provider is a direct violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Such payments corrupt the patient's free choice of provider and taint the resulting drug claims as kickback-induced.
OCP and Webb settled with OIG on September 19, 2025, agreeing to pay $100,000 and to accept a five-year exclusion from all federal healthcare programs.
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's anti-kickback compliance hooks would flag cash payments to customers tied to drug purchases; a compliance gate auditing customer incentive programs against beneficiary status would catch inducement payments to Medicare/Medicaid enrollees before they generate regulatory exposure.
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