Two related, integrative chiropractic practices and their chiropractor owners have agreed to make payments totaling $805,978 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of P-Stim electro-acupuncture devices, in these cases branded ‘ANSiStim.’ The settling parties are: (1) Discover Optimal Healthcare of Brookhaven, PA, with its owner, Jason Weigner, and his affiliate Weigner Healthcare Management Group, LLC (collectively, “Weigner”); and (2) Yucha Medical Pain Management & Chiropractic Rehabilitation, LLC of Pottstown, PA, and its owners, Randolph E. Yucha and Rodney Gabel (collectively, “Yucha”).
From approximately September 2016 to February 2017, Weigner and Yucha separately billed Medicare, and Weigner also billed the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, for the implantation of neuro-stimulators — a surgical procedure which usually requires an operating room and which is reimbursed by federal healthcare programs — when in fact the only procedures performed had been the non-surgical application of ANSiStim by a non-surgeon contractor physician. Weigner promoted this scheme to Yucha and received a portion of Yucha’s profits. For the fraudulently billed P-Stim services here, Weigner previously repaid $306,342 to Medicare and will pay an additional $356,150. Likewise, Yucha had repaid $94,089 to Medicare and will pay an additional $49,397.
