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Ahmed secured Medi-Cal group provider numbers for each of the
K & M pharmacies.
When customers would make purchases of prescription and OTC
drugs and other items from Ahmed’s pharmacies, the customers
would present their Medi-Cal cards to the pharmacy cashiers. The
cashiers would use an online system to determine the validity of
the customers’ Medi-Cal cards and whether Medi-Cal would approve
the purchases.
If Medi-Cal approval was received, the cashiers would
complete the transactions with the customers, the customers would
make no payment to the pharmacies, and K & M later would be paid
by Medi-Cal.
Ahmed’s pharmacies also made sales to customers of
prescription drugs and of medical supplies that were paid for by
the customers with cash.
Ahmed’s pharmacies also sold to customers various
alternative medicinal items and nonmedicinal products such as tea
packs, herbal remedies, toiletries, bandages, soft drinks, and
snacks. Medi-Cal did not cover these products, and customers
generally paid the pharmacies for these products with cash.
1996
Sometime in early 1996, using K & M corporate funds, Ahmed
opened a medical clinic under the name of Clinica Santa Maria.
The clinic was located in the same neighborhood as the
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