SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lana Le Chabrier, 64, of Santa Barbara, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to commit health care fraud. She was found guilty by a jury on July 8, 2011. In sentencing Le Chabrier, Judge England found Read More »
An Asheville, N.C., resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for her role in a health care fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid in Miami and Hendersonville, N.C., announced the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Department of Read More »
BEAUMONT, Texas – A 46-year-old Dayton, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Bert Carrol Rainey pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with fraud to obtain workers compensation benefits today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Giblin. According to information presented Read More »
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 14 hospitals located in New York, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Missouri and Florida have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $12 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare. This brings Read More »
HOUSTON – Aghaegbuna “Ike” Odelugo, 39, of Sugarland, Texas, has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, committing health care fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore handed down the prison sentence this morning and Read More »
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Aviva Goldstein, 34, of Brighton, N.Y., a licensed pharmacist, who was convicted of knowingly causing drugs to be dispensed without a valid prescription, was fine $500 and order to pay $718 in restitution by Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Read More »
BOSTON – Cancer Genetics, Inc., a New Jersey-based company that previously operated a laboratory in Milford, Mass., has paid the United States one million dollars to settle allegations that it improperly submitted claims to Medicare for chromosome karyotyping studies from July 2003 to March 2005. The settlement agreement resolves government allegations that Cancer Genetics, Inc. Read More »
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the unsealing of a civil action against Advantage Medical Transport, Inc. and Serge Sivchuk. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, on November 15, 2011, Sivchuk filed a motion to release money from bank accounts, frozen when the case was filed, Read More »
Government Alleged Hospital Submitted Claims for Worthless and Medically Unnecessary Services WAYCROSS, GA: Satilla Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Satilla Regional Medical Center, has paid the United States $840,000 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the Government for medical procedures performed by Dr. Najam Azmat at Satilla that were worthless and not medically Read More »
A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Miami for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sandra Jimenez, 38, admitted Read More »
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