US Attorney Duane A. Evans for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that Bret Berry, 60, of Mandeville, LA was charged March 9, 2021 with seven counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, Berry defrauded Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Medicare and Medicaid, other healthcare benefit programs relating to billing for cardiac rehabilitation services. Berry attempted to provide services that required a doctor’s order when he did not have said order, and he attempted to provide services that required a doctor’s presence, when no doctor was present. According to the indictment, Berry and his companies billed healthcare insurance companies for fraudulent services totaling approximately $11,290,000. Berry and his companies were reimbursed approximately $859,000 in relation to those fraudulent claims.
