An Arizona doctor has copped to cooking the books in a multi-million dollar health insurance fraud case.
Linh Cao Nguyen, a Peoria physician, entered a guilty plea on March 19 to hoodwinking healthcare benefit programs out of a hefty $3.7 million bucks.
During his fraudulent spree, Nguyen sent in thousands of phony claims; while lighting the wallets of Medicare, TRICARE, AHCCCS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and UnitedHealthcare, according to details released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona. The crafty doc falsely billed for services as if he had personally treated patients, when it was actually nurse practitioners or other less expensive healthcare workers doing the legwork, this way inflating the pay he pocketed, Nguyen confessed to being the wizard behind the curtains, cooking up patient records to help kid cover-up his dirty money scheme.
Source: Peoria doctor pleads guilty to $3.7 million health care fraud scheme / hoodline