Las Vegas Woman Sentenced to Prison for $1 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme
A Las Vegas woman, Henrietta Binford, 54, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,250,223.39 in restitution for defrauding the State of Nevada Medicaid healthcare benefit…
Read More »Elara Caring Agrees to Pay $4.2M to Settle Allegations That It Billed Medicare for Ineligible Hospice Patients
Elara Caring, and its wholly owned subsidiaries JHH/CIMA Holdings Inc., CIMA Healthcare Management Inc., CIMA Hospice of Texarkana LLC, CIMA Hospice of East Texas LLC and CIMA Hospice of El…
Read More »Two Former Executives Sentenced for Committing Years-Long Fraud against Their Employer
Shawn Rains and Joseph Maharaj were sentenced to 12 years and 90 months in prison, respectively, for their participation in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from a White…
Read More »Man Shot Dead at Pennsylvania Nursing Home Attacked Officer with Wheelchair Footrest
A Spring Garden Township police officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a man during a confrontation inside the Rest Haven York nursing and rehabilitation facility, York County…
Read More »Opioid Manufacturer to Pay $1.536B in Criminal Fines and Forfeiture for Distributing Misbranded Opioid Medication
Endo Health Solutions Inc. (EHSI) was ordered to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and an additional $450 million in criminal forfeiture — the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties…
Read More »West Virginia Ambulance Services Business Owner Convicted of Tax Crimes
A federal jury in Beckley, West Virginia, convicted a man for failing to pay the taxes withheld from employees’ wages at an ambulance service he operated and for obstructing the…
Read More »Anesthesiologist Pleads Guilty to Taking Fentanyl from Missouri Hospital
An anesthesiologist at a Missouri hospital pleaded guilty in federal court on April 25, 2024, to illegally taking fentanyl from the hospital. He waived his right to a grand jury…
Read More »Sober Living Homes Owner Indicted for Allegedly Paying Nearly $175K in Kickbacks to ‘Body Brokers’ for Referring Patients
The owner and operator of addiction treatment facilities in Orange County is expected to be arraigned on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he paid nearly $175,000 in illegal kickbacks…
Read More »Sacramento County Man Indicted for Fraud in Connection with Medical Device Sales
A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment on April 25, 2024, against Michael Andrew Scott, 38, of Fair Oaks, charging him with wire fraud. The indictment was unsealed following…
Read More »Doctor Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances
On April 25, a Weston doctor was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for running a pill mill type pain clinic. The…
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