STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island man accused of running a prescription ring with a South Beach woman pleaded guilty earlier this month, authorities said.
Doraymus Robinson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and will be sentenced June 28 in Brooklyn federal court, said his lawyer, Paul Petrus.
They’re accused of inflating the transportation and translation services they provided
Two drivers and an interpreter serving serve low-income patients seeking mental health services allegedly conspired with the owner of a Northfield clinic to defraud the federal-state Medical Assistance program out of $1 million through false claims over more than three years, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed this week.
A chiropractor with a clinic in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side has been charged with submitting at least $10 million in bogus claims to Medicare and private insurers.
Henry Posada, 54, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 18 counts of health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
HARTFORD >> Before formal charges were brought against Dr. Ljudmil Kljusev, an undercover federal agent entered the psychiatrist’s Milford practice and told him, “I heard you were cool.”
The agent, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Karwan, walked out of Kljusev’s offices with prescriptions for drugs the agent displayed no medical need for during the visit.
Massachusetts Auditor Suzanne Bump’s office identified $17.6 million in questionable or potentially fraudulent MassHealth payments between March 2016 and March 2017, according to an annual report released Wednesday.
BOSTON (AP) — At Dr. Fathalla Mashali’s pain management clinics, the waiting rooms were often so packed with patients that people sat on the floor, leaned against walls and spilled into the hallways.
State law enforcement officials announced charges Friday against three area residents for Medicaid fraud.
Marcus Brumfield, 24, Amanda Jett, 37, and Deedra Brown, 44, have been charged in Madison County Circuit Court with vendor fraud and theft. Their cases are pending.
Tampa, FL – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Anthonio Miller (26, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
The owner of a Frisco-based hospice company, his wife and 14 others have been indicted in a $60 million Medicare fraud scheme that put financial interests over the needs of patients, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas.
NEWARK – A Haddonfield woman on Tuesday admitted her role in a fraud that caused losses of almost $1 million, authorities said.
Julie Andresen, 39, took payments of about $161,000 as part of a year-long scheme that exploited the prescription drug benefits plan at her former employer, an unnamed pharmaceutical firm, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey.