Physician Daniel Case has agreed to pay $95,000 to resolve allegations that he participated in a kickback scheme and ordered medically unnecessary durable medical equipment that Case caused to be billed to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs. Between October 2018 and April 2019, Case worked with RediDoc LLC. RediDoc employed telemarketing companies to call federal healthcare program beneficiaries, including Medicare beneficiaries, and speak with them about obtaining durable medical equipment at no cost. Portions of these calls were recorded and provided to physicians, like Dr. Case, along with pre-filled prescriptions for durable medical equipment. The physicians would review the recordings and sign orders for durable medical equipment, which were then billed to federal healthcare programs, including Medicare. The physicians, including Dr. Case, were paid for each order they signed prescribing durable medical equipment.
The owners of RediDoc were charged with various federal offenses in September 2020, including conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statute, based upon the fact that the payments to physicians were remuneration intended to induce the physician to sign durable medical equipment orders, including orders that were not medically necessary. The owners of RediDoc both pled guilty to this conspiracy, admitting that RediDoc provided kickbacks to physicians, such as Dr. Case, to induce them to sign durable medical equipment orders.
