MORRISTOWN, NJ – A 54-year-old Morristown doctor will spend four years in prison for his participation in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of $30 million dollars, according to United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York … Read More
The US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has recently announced several healthcare fraud enforcement actions, charging 149 people for fraud schemes resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful billings to the federal government healthcare programs. These charges resulted from … Read More
A man and his “marketing company” have been named in a five-count federal indictment for a scheme that paid workers to solicit elderly residents for information used to fraudulently bill government medical programs. Patrick Siado, of Texas, and his company, … Read More
Two Valley defendants have been sentenced in a health care fraud scheme that bilked Medicaid out of more than $850,000. A McAllen federal judge sent Everado Villareal to prison for 3 years and 4 months, while sentencing Delilah Rae Robles … Read More
The owner and operator of a Buckhead-based healthcare company pleaded guilty to a $1.2 million Medicaid fraud scheme, authorities said Tuesday. Diandra Bankhead, 42, used her company, Elite Homecare, to submit thousands of fraudulent claims for Medicaid services that were … Read More
AUGUSTA, GA (WRDW/WAGT) — Bond was denied for the man accused of being the leader of an alleged Medicaid scam in the CSRA. The judge said Daniel Abshari, 33, was a “flight risk, a threat to witnesses and a threat … Read More
Jeff Patton lost $3,300. Rochelle Therrien lost $400. Vessie Moore lost a whopping $14,000. These are a few people whose finances were destroyed when they visited Richard “Nate” Schott, the former dentist who pleaded guilty to swindling nearly $1 million … Read More
Federal prosecutors say it was a symbiotic relationship. Dental clinic owner Pamela Van Drie needed a dentist who would go along with her plan to defraud Medicaid without asking too many questions. And dentist James Dye needed a dental office … Read More
A federal jury found a South Florida health care facility owner guilty today for his role in the largest health care fraud scheme ever charged by the Justice Department, involving over $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid … Read More
A home health services company owner and a co-conspirator, both Miami, Florida residents, were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a $8.6 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal … Read More
HOUSTON – A federal jury has convicted a 50-year-old internal medicine doctor and 47-year-old hospital owner of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, 17 counts of health care fraud and three counts of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. … Read More
A former San Antonio pharmaceutical representative has pleaded guilty to her role in an $8.8 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to news website My San Antonio. Holly Blakely, 45, initially was charged in a 30-count indictment alleging she paid more … Read More
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two sisters who ran multiple home health care companies in Pittsburgh were indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged role in a multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme. Court documents unsealed Tuesday show Arlinda Moriarty … Read More
A founding physician of now-defunct Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas admitted his role in a $200 million bribery and kickback scheme Oct. 4, according to the Department of Justice. Wade Neal Barker, MD, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay … Read More
A former social worker who participated in a Medicaid fraud scheme by falsifying medical documents was sentenced to prison and ordered to repay more than $1 million. Duke Ellington Ellis was alleged to have forged signatures of a licensed psychologist … Read More
A former dentist from South Dakota plead guilty last week to a $16.6 million scheme to defraud consumers through the sale of a sham laser device and associated treatments, promising it would cure more than 200 different conditions, according to … Read More
he husband and wife co-owners of a Matteson-based youth counseling center are accused of using an inflated billing scheme to defraud Medicaid out of millions of dollars, a lawsuit filed by the U.S. attorney in Chicago and the state alleges. … Read More
