Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Welcome to the StopMedicareFraud.gov RSS news feed provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov News en-us New Orleans, Louisiana - Lionel Perkins, Jr., age 58, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was arrested on February 10, 2010 pursuant to a criminal complaint charging him with committing health care fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/louisiana.html#Feb-11-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/louisiana.html#Feb-11-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Salt Lake City – U. S. District Judge Clark Waddoups sentenced Andrew Earl Hayford, age 29, of Salt Lake City to 15 months in federal prison on Feb. 8, 2010, for embezzling money from OptumHealth Bank, a health care benefit program. Hayford was employed at OptumHealth Bank as a systems administrator. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/utah.html#Feb-8-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/utah.html#Feb-8-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Houston – A federal grand jury has returned a 14-count superseding indictment charging Mento Nnana Kaluanya with health care fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a $3.9 million health care fraud scheme, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on Feb. 4, 2010. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-5-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-5-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gilles, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, announced on Feb. 4, 2010, that a federal jury found defendant Yasmanny Benavides, 28, of Miami, Florida, guilty of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349 (Count 1); and health care fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1347 (Counts 2 through 4). Sentencing is scheduled before United States District Court Judge Joan Lenard on May 10, 2010. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida.html#Feb-4-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida.html#Feb-4-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney John P. Kacavas and Susan J. Waddell, the Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General,United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced on Feb. 4, 2010, that Premier Medical Staffing, Inc. (Premier) and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (SNHMC) have agreed to pay civil settlements totaling $123,400.00 to resolve allegations related to the employment of an individual who previously had been excluded from participating in Federal health care programs. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_hampshire.html#Feb-4-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_hampshire.html#Feb-4-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Houston – The majority owner and operator of a Houston durable medical equipment (DME) company was arrested yesterday in connection with a $1 million health care fraud investigation, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on Feb. 4, 2010. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-4-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-4-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and THOMAS F. O'DONNELL, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, New York Region. (HHSOIG), announced that Dr. ROBERTO AYMAT, Dr. JORGE RIVERO, ASMED BARRERA, AUGUSTO GUZMAN, and OSVALDO SOTOLONGO were charged today for defrauding the Medicare system out of $8.5 million using three AIDS/HIV clinics in Manhattan and Brooklyn. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_york.html#Feb-3-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_york.html#Feb-3-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Houston – A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced on Feb. 3, 2010. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-3-2010b http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-3-2010b Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT TYLER, TX – U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that indictments were returned on Feb. 2, 2010, charging individuals with federal crimes in the Eastern District of Texas. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-3-2010a http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Feb-3-2010a Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced on Feb. 2, 2010, the conviction of defendant Maria A. Aloise, 41, of Miami-Dade County, on health care fraud charges. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida.html#Feb-2-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida.html#Feb-2-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROMILLA ANWAR and ANATOLY SUNIK were sentenced on Friday, January 29, 2010, to 30 months and 12 months in prison, respectively, in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge LEWIS A. KAPLAN on health care fraud charges. SUNIK and ANWAR each pleaded guilty in April of 2009, stemming from their operation of a medical fraud mill operating as the Avenue K Medical Clinic (the Clinic). http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_york.html#Feb-1-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/new_york.html#Feb-1-2010 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EDT Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on January 21, 2010, Stephen M. Young of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to serve nine months in federal prison following his convictions for health care fraud and for obtaining narcotic controlled substances by misrepresentation and forgery. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alaska.html#jan-21-2010b http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alaska.html#jan-21-2010b Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EDT Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on January 21, 2010, Cheri Ray, of Wasilla, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Anchorage to embezzling money from a health care benefit program. http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alaska.html#jan-21-2010 http://stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alaska.html#jan-21-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EDT SHERMAN, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that two Dallas County men have been arrested in a health care fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-21-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-21-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT CINCINNATI - Barbara Rauen, 52, of Crestview Hills, Kentucky pleaded guilty on January 21, 2010, in United States District Court here to one count of wire fraud for embezzling more than $300,000 from Havel's, a specialty medical supplies distributor in Cincinnati. Rauen was president, chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the company from 1999 until she left the company on August 20, 2008. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-21-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-21-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT NEW ORLEANS - Windsor Dennis, M. D., age 77, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for health care fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/louisiana.html#Jan-21-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/louisiana.html#Jan-21-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT WASHINGTON - The United States announced on January 20, 2010, that it has settled False Claims Act allegations against FORBA Holdings LLC, a dental management company that provides business management and administrative services to 69 clinics nationwide known as "Small Smiles Centers." http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/washington.html#Jan-20-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/washington.html#Jan-20-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT LOUISVILLE, KY - U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced on January 20, 2010, that a federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment against Leobaldo Perez Gonzalez, age 50, of Miami, Florida, on charges of health care fraud, submitting false claims, and wire fraud. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-20-2010b http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-20-2010b Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury here has indicted Dr. Charles C. Njoku, 60, of Powell, and Veronica Scott-Guiler, 41, of Orient, on January 20, 2010, who supervised his Columbus office, charging them with billing government health care insurance programs for physician services, including office visits and tests, that were not provided as billed. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-20-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/ohio.html#Jan-20-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT NORFOLK, Va. - Erica Shanta Fowler, 27, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced on January 19, 2010, in Norfolk federal court to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and stealing identity information belonging to nursing home patients. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#Jan-19-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#Jan-19-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT Manual Deluna has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-14-2010b http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-14-2010b Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT PLANO, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced on January 14, 2010, that a 52-year-old Dallas doctor has been indicted on charges of receiving illegal kickbacks in the Eastern District of Texas. Harold Wagner, of DeSoto, Texas, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 14, 2010, charging him with 7 counts of accepting illegal kickbacks. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#Jan-14-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT St. Louis, MO: Dr. David Quang Pham, DPM, has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with false billing to Medicare and Medicaid, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced on January 14, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/missouri.html#Jan-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/missouri.html#Jan-14-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT Thirteen Detroit-area residents were arrested today by federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and FBI in connection with an alleged home health care scheme to defraud the Medicare program of more than $14.5 million. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/michigan.html#Jan-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/michigan.html#Jan-14-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT BOSTON, MA - The former chief of acute pain at Bay State Hospital in Springfield, http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/massachusetts.html#Jan-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/massachusetts.html#Jan-14-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT DES MOINES, IA - On January 14, 2010, Dr. Angel Serafin Martin, MD, age 62, was found guilty on 31 counts of health care fraud at the completion of a 5-day jury trial announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/iowa.html#Jan-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/iowa.html#Jan-14-2010 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EDT