The owner of a Detroit-area home health agency will serve 120 months in prison for his role in a $11 million Medicare fraud scheme. Chiradeep Gupta, 39, a physical therapist and part-owner of the Oak Park, Michigan-based All American home health agency, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, […]
Category: Fraud
The former chief executive officer of Louisville, Ky.-based HealthEssentials Solutions and co-founder of Kindred Healthcare Inc., has resolved allegations of Medicare fraud related to HealthEssentials reimbursement claims by agreeing to a $1 million settlement. The Justice Department accused Michael R. Barr, who along with W. Bruce Lunsford co-founded the post-acute care company that’s now known […]
The owner and operator of a Miami-based medical clinic pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with over $20 million of home health and other healthcare-related fraud. Miami resident Isabel Medina, 49, pleaded guilty before a U.S. Southern District of Florida judge for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, which allegedly involved fraudulently billing for home health care […]
Two Texans are prison-bound for their roles in a scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through false home health reimbursement claims, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday. Debra Jean Velasquez and Sylvia Salinas Ramirez both pleaded guilty in early September to conspiring to submit false and […]
Three years following a final rule that will allow for fingerprinting of workers—a measure targeting Medicare fraud—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finally making plans to contract with a company to conduct the background checks, according to a Modern Healthcare report. The fingerprint screening is one of several mechanisms now allowed by the […]
Two patient recruiters for Florida home health companies were sentenced on Dec. 12 for their roles in a $48 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced. Elizabeth Monteagudo received a 70-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release and was also ordered to pay $3.5 million in restitution jointly and severally with […]
Twenty Detroit-area residents were charged in early December for their roles in home health care and other schemes enacted in order to submit more than $34 million in false billing to Medicare, the Justice Department announced. The defendants include physicians, owners and operators of companies, office employees and patient recruiters have been charged with submitting […]
A patient recruiter for a Miami home health care agency was sentenced on Wednesday to nine years in prison for his role in a $48 million scheme to defraud Medicare, the Justice Department announced. Emilio Amador was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno in the Southern District of Florida following a guilty plea in […]
Two former owners of a home health care company in Miami, Florida were sentenced this week for their roles in a health care fraud scheme that bilked the federal government out of $8 million in Medicare dollars. The former owners of Flores Home Health Care Inc., Miguel Jiminez and Marina Sanchez Pajon, were sentenced to […]
The owner of several home health companies in Miami has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for his role in a $20 million Medicare fraud scheme carried out from 2007 to 2010. The owner and operator of Trust Care Health Services Inc., Roberto Marrero, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and […]
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