CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The owner of a home health care company based out of the Rio Grande Valley is headed to prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas.
On Thursday, 44-year-old McAllen native Miguel Angel Contreras was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison after he plead guilty to his conspiracy charge on April 4..
He will also pay restitution for the more than $1 million as part of his sentence.
Contreras admitted he used his home health care company — Sambritt Home Health LLC — to submit claims to Medicare for reimbursement of home health services that were “not provided, that a physician had not authorized and/or were not medically necessary.”
Contreras also admitted he paid illegal kickbacks in exchange for patient information, including patient Medicare numbers.