Owner of Ohio Home Healthcare Company Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud, Tax Crimes
Sharon Romaine Ward, 52, formerly of West Chester, pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing more than $8.5 million to Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs home healthcare programs between 2015 and 2021….
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United States Reaches $1.2 Million Civil Settlement with Missouri Pain Management Doctor
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced that the United States has reached a civil settlement to resolve allegations that Dr. Nehal Modh and Modh’s…
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Eight Defendants Charged with Multimillion Dollar Healthcare Fraud Scheme
Noman Ahmed, Adnan Arshad, Rehman Diwan, Jessica Hendrickson, Jose Marte, Mohammed Saleem, Faisal Shamsi, and Waqas Shamsi were charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, conspiracy to defraud…
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Two Individuals Plead Guilty to Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy
A former doctor and her wife pleaded guilty to crimes involving the medical practice they ran in north Alabama for many years. Francene Aretha Gayle, 50, of Apopka, Florida, pleaded…
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Iowa Surgical Center Agrees to Pay $125,000 to Resolve Allegations It Violated the Controlled Substances Act
First Choice Surgical Center, an ambulatory surgical center located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has agreed to pay $125,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated civil provisions…
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Pharmacist Convicted of Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances at Retrial
A federal jury in the Southern District of Texas convicted a Texas pharmacist after a retrial for unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances at a now-shuttered pharmacy. According to court…
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United States Sues Telehealth Providers and Executives for Unfair and Deceptive Conduct
The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that the United States filed an amended complaint against telehealth company Cerebral Inc., Cerebral’s founder and former Chief Executive…
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Massachusetts Psychiatrist Sentenced to over Eight Years in Prison for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Scheme
A Wellesley psychiatrist was sentenced for billing Medicare and private insurance companies for over $19 million in treatments he did not provide and obstructing justice in an attempt to conceal…
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CityMD Agrees to Pay over $12M for Alleged False Claims to the COVID-19 Uninsured Program
City Medical of the Upper East Side, PLLC, Summit Medical Group, P.A., Summit Health Management, LLC, and Village Practice Management Company, LLC, which collectively do business as CityMD, and manage…
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Daughter Who Stole More Than $700K from Elderly Mother While Serving as Caregiver Sentenced to Prison
A woman who forged checks to steal more than $700,000 from her elderly mother in Lewistown, Montana, while purporting to serve as her caregiver was sentenced to four and one-half…
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