Medicare Fraud

Roger Staubach said, “If you don’t have trust inside your company, then you can’t transfer it to your customers.” But with Dr. Kenneth Mitchel, there should be little trust in him left by his business partner and even less from the U.S. Medicare Program,...

What does Durable Medical Equipment (the equipment ordered by a health care provider for the patients everyday use such as oxygen equipment, wheelchairs and crutches) and Genetic Testing (a medical test that determines a genetic condition or disorder) have in common? In this case?...

O’Lear was the president of Portable Radiology Services, a company that supposedly provided portable X-ray services to individuals residing in nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities and long-term care facilities. But the reality of it was that O’Lear only provided portable fraud. From 2013 through 2017,...

The risk of Covid-19 during the pandemic made it unsafe for non-Covid 19 medical care, thus the invention of telemedicine care. Doctors worked from home meeting patients on line to administer medical care. But like so many other Covid-19 programs and newly formed businesses...

Arrayit Corporation falsely claimed to have invented a technology to test for any disease using a drop of blood. Wait! A Silicon Valley executive who prosecutors said lied to investors about inventing technology? Again? Yes. Again. But different fraudster and this one involves taxpayers’...

Often seen as a symbol of authority and professionalism, the white lab coat frequently is conferred on new students during a ceremony held at the very beginning of medical school. The tradition began in the late 1800s, when trained surgeons, followed by physicians not too...

Jean Skiera didn’t question anything when she got a phone call this past spring that medical equipment was on its way for her husband, Ron, a patient recovering from multiple surgeries. After all, she believed her husband’s doctor knew what was best. Both had...

Naomi Moore was the owner of two Houston based businesses, Friend’s Place and Metro Health Services, that were both advertised as home health care service businesses. But after thirteen years of receiving and reimbursing invoices from Moore, the Department of Health and Human Services...

Every year, numbers show that the lion’s share of False Claims Act settlements and judgements involve healthcare fraud. One big factor to the high quantity of healthcare fraud settlements would be because of the skilled and aggressive efforts of the DOJ fraud enforcement agencies...

Telemarketing and telemedicine company owner Marc Sporn of Delray Beach, Florida, was sentenced on June 16, 2022 to 14 years in prison following a healthcare and wire fraud scheme, in which he robbed Medicare out of more than $20 million. And you can help him with...