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Crispin Abarientos, M.D., 45, of Middletown, was sentenced to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program. According to court documents and…

A Salyersville, Kentucky, woman, Kelsie Spencer, 25, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, following her conviction for tampering with a controlled substance. According to Spencer’s plea agreement, while…

A Westlake man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the Cleveland Clinic out of more than $2.7 million. Wisam Rizk…

Two metro-Atlanta chiropractors, Allan Spagnardi and Stacy Spagnardi, have been sentenced to federal prison for using their chiropractic clinic to commit healthcare fraud and for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service….

A 43-year-old Little Rock, AR man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown. According to information presented in court,…

A Springfield nursing home’s failure to give a patient multiple prescribed doses of medicine for diabetes resulted in her being hospitalized in intensive care and the facility being fined $25,000…

The owner of a Michigan home health agency was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in a scheme involving approximately $1.5 million in Medicare claims for home…

The Department of Justice announced that hospital entities Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center, and Sanford Clinic (collectively, Sanford), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have agreed to pay $20.25 million to…

Mobolaji Tina Stewart, 58, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to defraud the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program. Stewart worked as…