A doctor from Edwardsville admitted guilt to a federal healthcare fraud charge for falsely documenting services provided to nursing home residents for reimbursement from Medicare. Phillip J. Greene, 59, pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud. According to court documents, Greene was a practicing licensed physician employed by General Medicine and working at various nursing home locations throughout the Southern District of Illinois. He was an enrolled provider in the federal Medicare program. To conduct the fraud, Greene documented misrepresentations in his medical and progress notes for nursing home residents for services he did not perform, including claims related to patients who were already deceased at the time of the billed services. By way of General Medicine, Greene submitted false claims to Medicare totaling more than $20,000 for health services he did not provide from October 2016 through September 2018. Medicare reimbursed Greene and General Medicine more than $15,000 for the false claims.
