5+ hour, 25+ min ago   (344+ words) The owner of physical rehabilitation facilities in New York has been sentenced to 38 months in prison for defrauding taxpayers of over $20 million. Nosson Sklar, a/k/a “Nathan Sklar,” 56, of New York, New York, was sentenced to 38 months in prison…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (514+ words) An Orange County man was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison for masterminding a massive healthcare fraud scheme in which nearly $270 million in fraudulent claims were submitted to Medi-Cal over an 11-month span. Those claims sought expensive prescription drugs…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (169+ words) An Azerbaijani man has pleaded guilty to submitting $137 million in fake claims for medical equipment to target Medicare Advantage Programs. Sevindik Huseynov, an Azerbaijani national, pleaded guilty in federal court today to three counts of healthcare fraud in connection with…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (287+ words) A federal jury convicted three defendants on charges relating to a Medicaid fraud scheme through a Henrico-based mental health agency. Court records say that twin sisters E'mon and Armone' Ambers, 31, and Traquan Brown, 32, participated in a scheme to defraud Medicaid…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) Two Florida men were sentenced to multiple years in prison for their roles in a $34.8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy billing Medicare for thousands of orthotic braces sent to Medicare beneficiaries who did not need them. According to court documents, Kenneth…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (218+ words) A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned an indictment yesterday charging Erekle Gugava, 33, an illegal alien from Georgia, with conspiracy to launder proceeds in connection with a $1.3 billion healthcare fraud scheme. Court documents say that Gugava was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (521+ words) We have another story of massive Medicare fraud out of California. This time, a respiratory therapist reportedly billed the state's Medicaid program $40 million, only to spend it on a mansion, sports cars, private jets, and luxury resorts. It's the latest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (484+ words) A North Carolina woman was sentenced last week to over nine years in prison for billing Medicaid for services that were never provided. Crystal Sherrell Jackson, 40, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (335+ words) An Orange County woman pleaded guilty earlier this week to submitting more than $2.2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for hospice services for beneficiaries who were not terminally ill. Medicare paid her company more than $2.1 million for those claims. Lynn Galbraith,…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (400+ words) The Justice Department announced earlier this week the unsealing of a nine-count indictment charging four people with multiple crimes related to $12 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims. The defendants, members of a Bronx-based racketeering organization known as the “War Room,” logged…...