Wed, 01 September 2010 10:00:00 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 Washington - The owner of a Detroit-area medical clinic, Juan De Oleo, and a doctor who helped falsify files at the clinic, Dr. Rosa Genao, were convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/HEATnews/dc.html#aug-27-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/HEATnews/dc.html#aug-27-2010 Wed, 01 September 2010 10:00:00 EDT McAllen, Texas - A 13-count superseding indictment charging Romelia Sanchez Puig, 41, of Edinburg, Texas, and two staff members of the Mission Clinic in Mission, Texas, with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud arising from a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid from the operation of two clinics and mail fraud has been returned by a Corpus Christi grand jury, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on July 29, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-27-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-27-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Washington - The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Dr. Najam Azmat and the Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., the Justice Department announced on July 28, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-27-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-27-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Connecticut - David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Stacey Lee Williams, 38, of Hamden, was sentenced on July 27, 2010, by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to three years of probation, the first six months of which she must serve in home confinement, for submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/connecticut.html#july-27-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/connecticut.html#july-27-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT McAllen, Texas - Local Physician Assistant Manuel Anthony Puig, 44, has plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Texas Medicaid program, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on July 26, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-26-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-26-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Martinsburg, West Virginia - A 54 year old Martinsburg physician was named in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Martinsburg, West Virginia. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/west_virginia#july-23-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/west_virginia#july-23-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT San Diego, CA - United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that a seventeen-count indictment was unsealed today that charges four individuals in a Medicare billing fraud conspiracy. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california#july-22-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california#july-22-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Miami - Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, defendant Raul S. Ramirez, 55, of Miami Gardens, FL, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, twelve counts of health care fraud, and three counts of money laundering. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida#july-22-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/florida#july-22-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Tyler, Texas - A 49-year-old Henderson, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal health care fraud related charges in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-21-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-21-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Los Angeles – A federal jury on July 21, 2010, convicted the last six defendants indicted in relation to a ring that defrauded Medi-Cal out of nearly $4.6 million by using unlicensed individuals to provide in-home care to scores of disabled patients, many of them children with cerebral palsy or developmental disabilities. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california#july-21-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california#july-21-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Huntsville - A Rainbow City woman pleaded guilty on July 20, 2010, to health care fraud totaling more than $330,000 for illegal prescription reimbursements she received while working as a pharmacy technician at a discount department store in East Gadsden, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley announced. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alabama#july-20-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/alabama#july-20-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Washington - Jose Garcia, 55, who has been a fugitive since 2008, was taken into federal custody May 10, 2010, at Miami International Airport, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-16-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-16-2010 Mon, 19 July 2010 12:00:00 EDT Baltimore, Maryland - William Crittenden, M.D., of Kensington, Maryland, has agreed to pay the United States $225,000 to settle claims that he submitted false claims to federal health benefits programs over a twenty month period between January 1, 2003 and November 30, 2005. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland#july-15-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland#july-15-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Savannah, Georgia - Hannes Robinson, 55, from Sandy, Utah, John Cutter, 45, from Raleigh, North Carolina, John Perez 64, from Miami, Florida, and Cynthia Bear, 41, from Pensacola, Florida were sentenced on July 14, 2010, by United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for their roles in a elaborate scheme to defraud Bayer HeathCare. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/georgia#july-15-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/georgia#july-15-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that health care fraud fighters in the state of Florida will now have additional funding to help find potential fraud and abuse in the state’s Medicaid program through the use of Medicaid claims data. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/07/20100715a.html http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/07/20100715a.html Thu, 15 July 2010 23:00:00 EDT Houston, Texas - Sandra Thurman Patino, 46, the operator of two Houston area durable medical equipment (DME) companies, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison without parole for her role in a $3.9 million motorized wheelchair scam and ordered to pay restitution to Medicare, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on July 12, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-13-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#july-13-2010 Mon, 02 August 2010 12:00:00 EDT Sacramento, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Audrey Renee Bell, 49, of Pacoima, Calif., was sentenced on June 7, 2010, by Senior United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to five years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution in connection with a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-7-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-7-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Pamela Arrey, age 49, of Glenelg, Maryland, a licensed pharmacist, to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to misbrand pharmaceuticals. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland.html#jul-5-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland.html#jul-5-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Lubbock, Texas - Kawai Ary-Berry, 38, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced on July 2, 1010, by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to serve 78 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-2-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-2-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Los Angeles - The company that owns Advanced Radiology of Beverly Hills has paid the federal government $647,000 to settle allegations that it filed false claims with Medicare for unnecessary radiological tests. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-2-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-2-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Abingdon, Virginia - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced on July 2, 2010, that Amy Joyell Hicks, 35, of Marion, Va. was found guilty of one count of devising a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program by a jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010a http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010a Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Alexandria, Virginia - Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has named three prosecutors to lead the Office’s efforts to combat health care fraud in the District. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010b http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010b Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Texarkana, Texas - A 60-year-old Mount Pleasant, Texas man has been found guilty by a jury in a disability fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-1-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-1-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Chattanooga - Benchmark Rehabilitation Partners, LLC, doing business as Benchmark Physical Therapy, has entered into a settlement with the United States and the State of Tennessee to pay over $1.8 million resolving allegations that it improperly billed the Medicare and TennCare/Medicaid programs for physical therapy services in violation of federal and state laws and regulations, U.S. Attorney Russ Dedrick announced on June 30, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#Jun-30-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#June-30-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Jackson, TN - Lorne Allan Semrau, 64 of Jackson, Tennessee, was convicted by a federal jury on June 17, 2010, for three counts of submitting false and fraudulent claims to defraud health care benefits programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in Tennessee and Mississippi announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#Jun-28-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#June-28-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT