A Florida man who operated a durable medical equipment company has admitted participating in a Medicare kickback and telemedicine fraud scheme. Patrick Wolfe, 48, of Belleair Beach, Fla., the operator of Wilmington Island Medical Inc., which does business as WI Medical Inc., a Georgia company, entered a guilty plea to one count of Conspiracy as charged in an Information. Wolfe admits paying kickbacks in return for “leads,” which were in actuality signed orders from physicians and nurse practitioners, and then billing those orders to Medicare Part B and Medicare Part C using WI Medical. The financial total for orders facilitated through this scheme is alleged to be in the millions of dollars. Medicare beneficiaries were located in the Southern District of Georgia and elsewhere. The charge carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, plus substantial financial penalties and forfeitures, followed by three years of supervised release upon completion of any prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
