A chain of podiatry clinics in St. Louis settled with the federal government for $125,000 for Medicare fraud on false claims from 2010 to 2016. The clinics apparently knowingly billed Medicare for medically necessary toenail removals, when the services provided were routine nail clippings that are not covered by the…
The Department of Justice recently announced that a Las Vegas medical practice will pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act through illegal billing. The settlement involved allegations that from January 1, 2006 through May 31, 2011, the practice violated the False Claims Act by…
An Arizona medical company that serves thousands of cancer patients is battling a federal lawsuit alleging that it ripped off Medicare and other government programs with millions of dollars in fraudulent charges. The whistleblower complaint moving through U.S. District Court says principals at Arizona Center for Cancer Care improperly collected…
A 63-year-old New Orleans woman has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for her part in a $3.2 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme. She was also ordered to pay $277,000 in restitution, according to federal prosecutors. She was convicted in November and sentenced Wednesday in…
A 70-year-old Miami man was convicted of illegally steering state-court defendants to a corrupt clinic, which in turned fraudulently billed Medicare for more than $63 million. He was sentenced to five years in prison, plus three years of supervised release. And he must pay back a staggering $9.9 million in…
A Fort Lauderdale eye doctor received a 17-year sentence in February for apparently stealing $73 million from Medicare by persuading elderly patients to undergo excruciating tests and treatments they didn’t need for diseases they didn’t have. The man was convicted of 67 crimes including health care fraud, submitting false claims,…
Federal prosecutors have said that two owners of psychological service companies have been convicted of an $8.9 million fraud scheme that billed Medicare for unnecessary or nonexistent tests on nursing home patients in four Gulf Coast states. The owners, a Slidell, Louisiana man and his 63-year-old mother, plan to appeal,…
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it’s charging hundreds of individuals across the country with committing Medicare fraud worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the largest takedown in history, in regards to the number of people charged and the loss amount, according to the Justice Department. The majority of…
A Wesley Chapel doctor and his office manager are accused of defrauding the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $100,000. The male doctor and his office manager, who is also his ex-wife, were arrested Wednesday. Investigators allege the pair billed the Florida Medicaid program for services that were never…
A Gainesville doctor who was under federal investigation for years has been charged with 210 counts of health care fraud and money laundering. The 57-year-old is accused of submitting fraudulent claims for needless tests, buying drugs from outside the U.S. that are not permitted for use here and providing those…