Suburban/Bustleton Pharmacy, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Department of Aging

BARBIERI, Senior Judge.

Suburban/Bustleton Pharmacy, Inc. (Suburban) petitions this Court to review the order of the Secretary of the Department of Aging (DOA) which denied Suburban’s appeal from DOA’s decision to terminate Suburban’s participation in the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) program for a period of five years. We affirm.

On May 29, 1987, Jay Pollock (Pollock) and John Dzierza (Dzierza), owners of Suburban, were arrested and charged with approximately eighteen hundred counts of Medicaid fraud and with conspiracy. Both Pollock and Dzierza resigned as…