Jacklyn Price, the owner of two Detroit health clinics was sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in an $8.6 million scheme involving fraudulent Medicare claims. Price owned Patient Choice Internal Medicine and Metro Mobile Physicians, two Detroit-based Medicare providers. Reports say Price and several others had a scheme of...
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Category: Medicare Fraud
Ambulance company owner convicted in $3 million Medicare fraud faces possible 10 years in prison
Monday, August 20, 2018
Anthony Chukwudi Nwosah owner of Tonieann EMS and Rosenberg EMS,Ā admitted he conspired to submit more than $3 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance transport services that were not provided and...
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Owner of durable medical equipment company WaveCare Health Services pleads guilty to $9 million Medicaid fraud
Waveney Blackman, the owner of WaveCare HEalth Services, a company that provided durable medical equipment pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud for carrying out a scheme in which she fraudulently obtained more than $9.4 million in...
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Healogics pays $22.51 Million to end whistleblower claim for fraudulent billing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Healogics, Inc. has agreed to pay $22.51 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing wound care centers to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary and unreasonable hyperbaric oxygen ("HBO") therapy. Healogics manages nearly 700 hospital-based wound care centers across the country.
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Skilled nursing company Signature HealthCare pays $30 million to settle federal case charging Medicare and Medicaid fraud
Signature HealthCARE, LLC (Signature), will pay more than $30 million to settle cases based on Medicare and Medicaid fraud charges for giving patients more therapy than they needed, even if they were sick and could not tolerate the therapy sessions. Signature, which owns and operates approximately 115 skilled nursing facilities,has agreed to resolve allegations...
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Chicago Doctor Indicted for Stealing Almost $1 Million in Medicare Fraud Scheme
Fake Treatments and Paperwork Lead to Arrest in Medicare Fraud Case
A physician has been indicted for stealing nearly $1 million in Medicare fraud scheme that also included private insurance. Dr. Pranav Patel, of the Chicago area, allegedly submitted fake insurance claims for medical tests and exams that were...
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Ambulance company employee gets 3-year prison term for $28 million Medicare fraud scheme
Ambulance company employeeAharon Aron Krkasharyan, 54, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu of the Central District of California, who also ordered Krkasharyan to pay $484,556 in restitution to Medicare, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators, who await sentencing. On Nov. 27, 2017, Krkasharyan pleaded guilty to one...
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Banner Health pays over $18 million to settle Medicare fraud whistleblower case over needless inpatient stays
Banner Health has agreed to pay the United States over $18 million to settle allegations that 12 of its hospitals in Arizona and Colorado knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly outpatient basis, the Justice Department announced today. Headquartered in Arizona,...
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Orthopedic and anesthesia providers pay $3.2 million to settle Medicare fraud case on purchase of non approved drugs outside the USA
A mixed group of orthopedic and anesthesia providers including Georgia Bone & Joint (GBJ), Southern Bone & Joint a/k/a Summit Orthopedic Surgery Center (Summit Surgery Center), Southern Crescent Anesthesiology, PC (SCA), Sentry Anesthesia Management, LLC (Sentry), and registered anesthesia nurse David LaGuardia (LaGuardia) have agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a...
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Skilled nursing facility pays $5.1 million to settle Medicare fraud suit over treatments that were not medically necessary
New Oaklawn Investments, LLC, d/b/a Oaklawn Health and Rehabilitation Center and Elmcroft Senior Living, Inc., a Louisville based skilled nursing facility, agreed to pay $5,191,470 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to the Medicare Program, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
"Today's settlement is...
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