Spring Pharmacy Owner Convicted in $20 Million Kickback Scheme
Tronown Thomas faces up to five years in prison following his conviction in the Southern District of Texas.
3 reports on this incident · first at Aug 19, 2026, 10:06 a.m. ET
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Aug 19, 2026, 10:22 a.m. ET
Spring Pharmacist Convicted in Health Care Kickback Scheme
Tronown Thomas, 54, of Spring, the owner and operator of Rayford ACP Pharmacy, has been convicted of conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks in the Southern District of Texas, according to FOX 26 Houston. The conviction was announced on August 18, 2026. Thomas faces a statutory maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine. According to FOX 26 Houston, the government argued that Thomas paid more than $2 million in kickbacks to the owner of a Houston clinic in exchange for referrals of patients covered by the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs who were prescribed expensive compounded medications. Thomas then billed the DOL-OWCP. Between November 2015 and September 2017, Thomas and Rayford ACP Pharmacy received more than $20 million in reimbursements from the federal program.
Aug 19, 2026, 10:06 a.m. ETFirst report
Spring Pharmacy Owner Convicted in Health Care Kickback Scheme
Tronown Thomas, 54, of Spring, the owner and operator of Rayford ACP Pharmacy, has been convicted in the Southern District of Texas of conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks, as reported on August 18, 2026, by FOX 26 Houston. The case remains open and developing.
According to FOX 26 Houston, the government argued that Thomas paid more than $2 million in kickbacks to the owner of a Houston clinic. The payments were in exchange for referrals of patients covered by the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs who were prescribed expensive compounded medications, which Thomas billed to the program. Between November 2015 and September 2017, Thomas and Rayford ACP Pharmacy received more than $20 million in reimbursements from the federal program.
Thomas faces a statutory maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine, according to FOX 26 Houston.
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