Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LUIS OMAR VARGAS, an unlicensed dentist, was convicted last Friday, after a two-week jury trial, for defrauding health insurance companies by billing for false … Read More
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two sisters who ran multiple home health care companies in Pittsburgh were indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged role in a multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme. Court documents unsealed Tuesday show Arlinda Moriarty … Read More
Federal prosecutors obtained a jury conviction of two North Texas home health owners who stole over $3.7 million from Medicare and Medicaid. A joint investigation with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Texas attorney general’s office brought Celestine “Tony” … Read More
A federal jury convicted a Houston-area hospital administrator on Friday for his role in a $16 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern … Read More
A regional hospital system in the Detroit, Michigan area agreed to pay the federal government over $84 million to resolve allegations that the system violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the physician-self referral law. The federal government accused William Beaumont Hospital … Read More
The DOJ’s national healthcare fraud takedown resulted in charges against more than 600 defendants, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. Here’s the rundown on defendants charged in districts across the U.S.: Source: Providers from 35 states charged in … Read More
Two remaining defendants in a $36 million fraud scheme have admitted to taking part in the collection of unnecessary lab tests of saliva and urine that were billed to the U.S. military’s health care system, according to plea documents. Jody … Read More
A former Aliso Viejo resident was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday for submitting fraudulent bills to insurance companies for $8 million in medical tests and services that were never performed. Michael Mirando, 40, who now resides in … Read More
DALLAS — Andrew Joseph Baumiller, 38, of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health insurance program … Read More
The owner of a Decatur compounding pharmacy entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors Monday to charges related to charges that he conspired to defraud a federal health insurance program out of more than $10 million. John Christopher Lemley, the … Read More
Two men admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of $25 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions. Matthew Tedesco, 42, a pharmaceutical sales representative from Linwood, N.J., and Robert Bessey, 43, of … Read More
DALLAS – The U.S. government moved to seize the assets of Dallas attorney Tshombe Anderson after Anderson pled guilty Aug. 3 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud in a case that also involves four of his family members. The … Read More
AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) – A Bushland man has pleaded guilty to committing health care fraud. Thomas Roy Clark, 52, pleaded guilty today to one count of health care fraud after participating in a scheme to defraud insurance companies through the submission … Read More
