Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict against Laura Perryman on two counts of an Indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud and substantive healthcare fraud in connection with her company’s creation and sale of a fake medical device component. U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote presided over the 11-day trial. US Attorney Damian Williams said: “Laura Perryman brazenly created a dummy medical device component — made entirely out of plastic — to be implanted into patients. She marketed that dummy component as a means for doctors to bill Medicare and private insurance companies approximately $18,000 for each implantation of the piece of plastic. She did this so that she could entice doctors to buy her device for many thousands of dollars. Perryman recklessly used patients as tools for financial gain, and this jury’s unanimous verdict sends a resounding message that individuals who defraud healthcare programs will be held criminally accountable.”
