Fraudster Using Patients as ‘Personal Cash Register’ Sentenced

The woman who once ran home health care company, Doctor at Home, located in Schaumburg, Illinois, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison for performing a $15.6 million Medicare overbilling scheme. Diana Jocelyn Gumila of Streamwood, Illinois, used patients as “her own personal cash register,” wrote U.S. District Judge Charles P. Kocoras. In April, an Illinois […]

Illinois Home Health Care Nurse Charged in $20 Million Fraud Scheme

A registered nurse who operated an Illinois-based home health care agency was arrested Tuesday on federal health care fraud charges for her alleged role in a scheme that billed Medicare more than $20 million. Diana Jocelyn Gumila, a 45-year-old licensed registered nurse in Illinois since 1991, manages Suburban Home Physicians, a company located in Schaumburg, […]