US Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Dr. Alex L. Glotser, age 36, a resident of Metairie, pleaded guilty on October 18, 2023, to defrauding Medicare out of approximately $5.6 million in connection with ordering medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (“DME”) and Cancer Genetic Testing (“CGx”). Glotser pleaded guilty to a bill of information charging him with healthcare fraud. According to court documents, Glotser was an independent contractor for several purported telemedicine companies. From approximately September 2017 to August 2019, Glotser, through the telemedicine companies, signed thousands of doctors’ orders for DME and CGx tests for Medicare beneficiaries he never saw, spoke to, or otherwise treated. As a result, Glotser’s orders resulted in over $5.6 million in false and fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare, of which Medicare reimbursed over $2.4 million.
To conceal and perpetuate the fraud, Glotser made several false and fraudulent statements to support these orders, including falsely certifying, in medical records and requisition forms, that he was the beneficiaries’ “treating physician,” that he had “personally” examined patients, including performing certain in-person procedures for knee braces, and that he used the DME and CGx tests ordered for the “management” of the patients’ conditions. In exchange for electronically reviewing patient charts and ordering DME and CGx tests, Glotser was paid a set fee per doctor’s order, typically $30, totaling $270,570.
