Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to $1.7 Million COVID-19 Test Fraud Scheme
A Texas man pleaded guilty to orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to obtain approximately $1.7 million from Medicare. Damon Heath Roberts, 55, was charged via criminal…
Hospital Executive and Three Texas Physicians to Pay over $880K to Settle Kickback Allegations
Former hospital executive Peggy Borgfeld, of Lexington, Texas, and physicians Linh Nguyen, M.D. and Thuy Nguyen, M.D., of Dallas, and Heriberto Salinas, MD, of Cleburne,…
Sleep Disorder Medical Practice Resolves Overbilling Allegations
The Department of Justice and Innovative Sleep Centers PLLC and Innovative Sleep Centers, Inc., have resolved allegations that the sleep centers improperly billed Medicare and…
Georgia Nurse Charged with Sexual Assault against Nursing Home Residents
A nurse in Walker County was arrested for what police say is sexual misconduct in a nursing home. She was charged with sexual assault against…
Texas Physician Sentenced for $1.2M Pill Mill Scheme
A Texas doctor was sentenced to seven years in prison for operating a pill mill clinic that unlawfully prescribed over 600,000 opioid pills in exchange…
Medical Clinic Owner and Pharmacy Technician Sentenced to Prison in Clinical Trial Fraud Scheme
A federal judge sentenced a medical clinic owner and a pharmacy technician for their involvement in a clinical trial fraud scheme that included the falsification…
Louisiana Man Charged in $148M Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, returned an indictment charging a Louisiana man for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and…
Mississippi Woman Arrested for Faking Nursing Credentials
Aberdeen Police Chief Quinell Shumpert confirmed with WTVA that a woman is currently in the Monroe County jail for faking her nursing credentials.
Kentucky Hospital System and Cardiologist Agree to Collectively Pay More Than $3 Million
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. (“ARH”), a hospital system based in eastern Kentucky, and one of its cardiologists have agreed to collectively pay the United States…
Philadelphia Pharmacy Pleads Guilty to More Than $500K in Fraudulent Insurance Claims
Attorney General Michelle Henry announced today that Philadelphia-based Aramingo Pharmacy pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud after an investigation uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in…