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Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty to DME, Telemedicine Fraud Scheme
A little more than a month after being charged in connection with a $7.8 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME), a Virginia-based nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. Daphne Jenkins, 64, faces up to 10 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release…
Read MoreLab Owner Gets 27 Years, Must Pay Back $187M in Genetic Testing Healthcare Fraud Scheme
An Atlanta lab owner has been ordered to turn over $187 million in ill-gotten gains he obtained in a healthcare fraud scheme that involved kickbacks and bribes in violation of the Anti-kickback statute and False Claims Act. The order was recently issued by a Miami federal judge against Minal Patel and follows his sentencing in…
Read MoreSouth Florida Man Who Received Kickbacks in $73M Genetic Testing Scheme Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud
Just before his Medicare fraud trial was to start, a Florida man who helped recruit telemedicine doctors as part of a $73 million genetic testing scheme to defraud Medicare pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks. Michael Stein admitted that he, through his company 1523 Holdings LLC, agreed to receive $50,000 per month in exchange for recruiting…
Read MorePharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to $8.3M Fraud Scheme
A Fort Lauderdale man who invested in three pharmacies that participated in the Medicare program pleaded guilty to taking part in an $8.3 million fraud scheme. According to court documents, Michael Murphy, 37, invested in Cure Pharmacy in Jacksonville and two other pharmacies. From around November 2019 until March 2021, he and his co-conspirators engaged…
Read MorePractitioner Beware: OIG Issues Telemedicine Fraud Alert
The increasing number of fraudulent schemes involving telemedicine companies prompted the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services to recently issue a special fraud alert. The alert came on the heels of a nationwide crackdown on a $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme leading to charges against three dozen defendants in…
Read MoreThree Dozen Charged in $1.2 Billion Healthcare Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice, through coordinated investigations across 13 districts, has filed criminal charges against three dozen defendants who allegedly were involved in $1.2 billion in fraudulent telemedicine, cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing, and durable medical equipment schemes. Those charged include a telemedicine company executive, owners and executives of clinical laboratories, durable medical equipment…
Read MoreNorth Carolina MD Indicted in $11M DME Scheme
A Charlotte, N.C. internist has been indicted on charges she defrauded federal healthcare programs out of more than $11 million in durable medical equipment scheme. Sudipta Mazumder, MD, 46, was indicted on one count of healthcare fraud and six counts of making false statements relating to healthcare matters. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western…
Read MoreFlorida Man Gets 14 Years in Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme
The owner and operator of telemarketing and telemedicine companies faces 14 years behind bars after pleading guilty to healthcare and wire fraud and evading taxes. Through information filed Feb. 3, Marc Sporn of Delray Beach was accused of creating an elaborate scheme that cost Medicare more than $20 million dollars. According to court documents, Sporn…
Read MorePharmacy Owner, Others Sentenced in $174M Telemedicine Pharmacy Fraud Scheme
A Florida pharmacy owner, his co-conspirators and seven related corporate entities recently were sentenced by a federal judge in Greenville Tenn. for their roles in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme. It was alleged that they deceived pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) such as Express Scripts and CVS Caremark. The PBMs processed and approved thousands of claims…
Read MoreSeven Not So Lucky Number for Two Healthcare Providers
A Florida doctor and the owner of several diagnostic labs have recently found themselves each facing jail sentences of seven years for committing healthcare fraud in separate cases. On Nov. 9, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Leonel Palatnik of Aventura and co-owner of Panda Conservation Group, was sentenced to nearly 7 years in…
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