Prosecutors said Dr. Mohamed Waddah El-Nachef prescribed unnecessary drugs at clinics in Anaheim and Los Angeles — and those drugs were then resold in illicit markets.
FULLERTON — An Orange County physician pleaded guilty Wednesday to orchestrating a scheme to defraud Medi-Cal out of $20 million.
“El-Nachef used his position as a physician to steal taxpayer money from our state programs and fuel illicit pharmaceutical sales on the streets of Southern California — all for personal gain,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “Today, he was held accountable and ordered to give back what he took from the people of California. Abuses of power — whether big or small — will never be tolerated by the California Department of Justice.
El-Nachef “wrote prescriptions for HIV medications, anti-psychotics, and opioids to over 1,000 medical beneficiaries brought to him by Fleming and Abrons,” the court papers said. “El-Nachef never conducted good-faith medical exams or otherwise validated that the patients actually needed the drugs he prescribed. A vast majority of the patients did not have HIV, nor had a legitimate need for the psychotic medications or controlled drugs.
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