Bethany A. Cataldi, DO, 54 years old, was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment, followed by 1 year of supervised release, and ordered to pay $19,138,245.43 in restitution after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud. As part of her plea agreement, Cataldi was required to forfeit significant assets, including jewelry, vehicles, musical instruments, and the contents of a number of bank accounts. Cataldi also agreed to sell real estate and other luxury assets purchased using the proceeds of her crime in order to fulfill her obligations to repay the fraudulently obtained funds. According to documents in the case, Cataldi — a physician, and the sole owner of the Center for Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery in Highland, Indiana — billed Medicare and private insurance for thousands of balloon sinuplasty procedures that she did not perform. A balloon sinuplasty is a procedure designed to treat chronic sinusitis by using a small, flexible balloon catheter to widen and drain blocked sinus passages. Cataldi sought approximately $50,000,000 for these non-existent procedures for which she was actually paid almost $20 million. Approximately $460,000 of the fraudulently obtained funds were paid by individual patients in the form of co-insurance payments.