HOUSTON – A judge sentenced a Houston-area mental health clinic owner to prison after prosecutors say she was the ringleader of medical fraud for decades, resulting in millions of dollars.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, Gwendolyn Gibbs, 72, was the owner of Daybreak Rehabilitation Center. That’s where Gibbs reportedly submitted fake claims for hospitalization services to Medicare from 2007 until 2016.
Court records claim many of the patients, including those who were treated for severe mental illness or had intellectual disabilities, were impacted by this scheme. For example, Gibbs admitted “to falsifying medical records to make it appear that patients were sicker than they actually were.”
Additionally, the 72-year-old bribed group homeowners and patient recruiters to refer Medicare beneficiaries to Daybreak.