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Nevada Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Medicare Wound Care Billing

A Las Vegas nurse practitioner pleaded guilty to conspiring to fraudulently bill Medicare for amniotic wound allografts for patients that were medically unreasonable and unnecessary in exchange for illegal healthcare kickbacks. Mary Huntly, 67, was charged with one-count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive healthcare kickbacks. According to court documents and admissions made in court by Huntly, she applied medically unnecessary allografts to Medicare beneficiaries that were procured through illegal kickbacks and bribes. Huntly admitted that, from September 2022 through April 2024, her wound care company fraudulently billed Medicare approximately $14,333,550, and Medicare paid approximately $9,105,563 based on those false claims.