Alabama State Rep. Ed Henry has been indicted in an ongoing federal pill mill case in Montgomery.

The indictment, announced on Thursday by Middle District U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin Sr., charges the 47-year-old lawmaker from Hartselle with one count of conspiring to pay kickbacks and to defraud the U.S., one count of conspiring to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, five counts of health care fraud and six counts of paying unlawful kickbacks.

Efforts to reach Henry for comment weren't immediately successful. However, Henry later posted on Facebook that he is not guilty of any crimes.

"For the last 8 years I have fought the government from further encroachment on our Freedoms. Today began my fight with the Federal Government for my freedom. So while I would like to lay everything on the table for all to see, that would not be wise while fighting an opponent that has endless resources like our Government," the post read.

Doug Howard, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, said Henry pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Thursday morning and will be released on bond today. The trial is currently set for October.

According to court documents, from 2015 through 2017, Henry was an owner of a health care company, MyPractice24, Inc. During some of that time, Henry also served as the company's chief executive officer.

MyPractice24 provided non-face-to-face chronic care management services to Medicare beneficiaries who had two or more chronic conditions. The company did so with contracts into which it entered with primary care physicians. Under those contracts, the doctors would pay Henry's company to provide these chronic care management services to the doctors' patients, the company would provide the services, the doctors would bill Medicare for the services, and then the doctors would pay Henry's company a share of the reimbursements received from Medicare.

The indictment claims that in 2016, Henry entered into an agreement with Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, a Montgomery physician who subsequently pleaded guilty to drug distribution, health care fraud, and money laundering charges. Under that agreement, MyPractice24 would provide various kickbacks to Dr. Sanchez and his staff in return for the providers at Dr. Sanchez's practice referring Medicare beneficiaries to MyPractice24 for chronic care management services.

Among the kickbacks provided, authorities said, were direct payments to a member of the staff, free chronic care management services, free medical billing services, and free clinical services unrelated to the provision of chronic care management services. Additionally, Henry assisted Sanchez in paying kickbacks to patients who enrolled in the chronic care management program. Sanchez paid the kickbacks by systematically waiving copays--copays which Medicare required Sanchez to collect.

On the six counts of paying unlawful kickbacks, each count is based on a different type of kickback Henry paid to Sanchez and those who worked at with the doctor at his practice. The other charges are based on Henry's assisting Sanchez in unlawfully waiving copay obligations and then failing to report the copay waivers to Medicare.

The money laundering charges stem from Henry's using the proceeds of health care fraud to make payments to Sanchez's staff members.

Henry's district included Cullman, Marshall and Morgan counties.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Tactical Diversion Squad, and the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, the Montgomery Police Department, and the Opelika Police Department assisted in the investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan S. Ross is prosecuting the case.