by Marihelen Gallagher | Oct 5, 2022 | Article, Fighting Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Identity Theft, Medicare Fraud Alerts, Medicare Legal Action, Medicare News
Thomas G. O’Lear, 58, of North Canton, Ohio, was sentenced September 29, 2022, to 15 years in prison and was ordered to pay $1,989,490 in restitution to Medicare, Medicaid and two Medicaid Managed Care Organizations. O’Lear was the President of Portable Radiology...
by Jenni Espay | Feb 24, 2022 | Article, Broadcast, Fighting Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Infographic, Media, Medicare Fraud Alerts, Medicare Legal Action, Medicare News, Scam Alert
February 24, 2022 DAYTON, Ohio – American Health Associates, Inc. (AHA) has agreed to pay the United States $142,718 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for diagnostic testing. AHA has offices...
by Lisa Dalga | Apr 26, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
April 26, 2021 A Texas man was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy at the Merida Group, a chain of hospice and home health agencies throughout Texas, to falsely convince thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 31, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 31, 2021 Jeremy Richey, 40, of Mars, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty by videoconference to a superseding information charging him with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in connection with a scheme to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Richey...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 29, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 29, 2021 Rural/Metro Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $650,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance transports. According to the settlement agreement, from January...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 22, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 22, 2021 An Oakland County Cardiologist, Dinesh M. Shah, M.D. and his practice, Michigan Physicians Group, P.C. (MPG) have paid the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal healthcare...
