Etienne Allonce, the former co-owner of Medical Solutions Management, Inc. (MSM), a durable medical equipment supplier in Hicksville, New York, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment for healthcare fraud. The Court also ordered Allonce to pay $4,444,468 in restitution. In September 2018, Allonce was expelled from Haiti where he had fled 11 years earlier shortly before his indictment in the Eastern District of New York. Prior to his return to the United States, Allonce was placed on the Most Wanted List of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). Between April 2003 and March 2007, Allonce, and his wife and MSM co-owner Michel Allonce, submitted approximately $10 million in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, seeking payment for medical supplies never ordered by MSM and never delivered to patients at nursing homes. Etienne Allonce fled the United States just hours before federal agents arrested his wife in 2007.
