Thu, 15 July 2010 23:00:00 EDT Welcome to the StopMedicareFraud.gov RSS news feed provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov News en-us Washington - Jose Garcia, 55, who has been a fugitive since 2008, was taken into federal custody May 10, 2010, at Miami International Airport, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-16-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/dc.html#july-16-2010 Mon, 19 July 2010 12:00:00 EDT U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that health care fraud fighters in the state of Florida will now have additional funding to help find potential fraud and abuse in the state’s Medicaid program through the use of Medicaid claims data. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/07/20100715a.html http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/07/20100715a.html Thu, 15 July 2010 23:00:00 EDT Sacramento, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Audrey Renee Bell, 49, of Pacoima, Calif., was sentenced on June 7, 2010, by Senior United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to five years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution in connection with a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-7-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-7-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Pamela Arrey, age 49, of Glenelg, Maryland, a licensed pharmacist, to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to misbrand pharmaceuticals. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland.html#jul-5-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/maryland.html#jul-5-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Lubbock, Texas - Kawai Ary-Berry, 38, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced on July 2, 1010, by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to serve 78 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-2-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-2-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Los Angeles - The company that owns Advanced Radiology of Beverly Hills has paid the federal government $647,000 to settle allegations that it filed false claims with Medicare for unnecessary radiological tests. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-2-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/california.html#jul-2-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Abingdon, Virginia - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced on July 2, 2010, that Amy Joyell Hicks, 35, of Marion, Va. was found guilty of one count of devising a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program by a jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010a http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010a Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Alexandria, Virginia - Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has named three prosecutors to lead the Office’s efforts to combat health care fraud in the District. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010b http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/virginia.html#jul-2-2010b Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Texarkana, Texas - A 60-year-old Mount Pleasant, Texas man has been found guilty by a jury in a disability fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-1-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jul-1-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Chattanooga - Benchmark Rehabilitation Partners, LLC, doing business as Benchmark Physical Therapy, has entered into a settlement with the United States and the State of Tennessee to pay over $1.8 million resolving allegations that it improperly billed the Medicare and TennCare/Medicaid programs for physical therapy services in violation of federal and state laws and regulations, U.S. Attorney Russ Dedrick announced on June 30, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#Jun-30-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#June-30-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Jackson, TN - Lorne Allan Semrau, 64 of Jackson, Tennessee, was convicted by a federal jury on June 17, 2010, for three counts of submitting false and fraudulent claims to defraud health care benefits programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in Tennessee and Mississippi announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#Jun-28-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/tennessee.html#June-28-2010 Tue, 13 July 2010 14:00:00 EDT Houston – Bassey Essien and Ebong Akpan, of Houston, have been charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy, multiple counts of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicaid through the fraudulent billing for adult urinary incontinence supplies, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on June 24, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-24-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-24-2010 Mon, 28 June 2010 14:00:00 EDT Brownsville, Texas - Texas House of Representative and dentist, Tara R. Rios Ybarra DDS, of South Padre Island, Texas, along with Diana Woo Paparelli DDS, 57, and Colbert J. Glenn DDS, 49, of McAllen, Texas, have been indicted for allegedly illegally refering Medicaid beneficiaries to Gary Morgan Schwarz DDS in exchange for remuneration, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced June 23, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-23-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-23-2010 Mon, 28 June 2010 14:00:00 EDT Houston - John Edward Perry III, 47, of The Woodlands, Texas, and Kate Ose Olear, 43, a Nigerian national residing in Houston, have been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced on June 18, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-18-2010b http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-18-2010b Mon, 28 June 2010 14:00:00 EDT A Tyler businessman has been arrested on charges of health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on June 18, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-18-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-18-2010 Mon, 28 June 2010 14:00:00 EDT El Paso, Texas - United States Attorney John E. Murphy; David Cuthbertson, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, El Paso Division; Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, El Paso Field Division; William “Bill” Cotter, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation in El Paso; Byron Hogan, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Southwest Field Office; and, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on June 14, 2010, that Dr. Anthony Francis Valdez, 56, stands charged with carrying out an estimated $41 million fraudulent health care benefit program billing scheme. Valdez is the owner of the Institute of Pain Management with clinics in El Paso and San Antonio. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-14-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#June-14-2010 Mon, 28 June 2010 14:00:00 EDT A Lufkin physician and his employee have been arrested on charges of health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on June 10, 2010. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jun-10-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/texas.html#jun-10-2010 Thu, 24 June 2010 22:00:00 EDT On June 8, 2010, James A. McDevitt, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that the Physicians Clinic of Spokane has paid the United States $656,000 to resolve allegations that it overcharged Medicare. http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/washington.html#jun-08-2010 http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/innews/washington.html#jun-08-2010 Thu, 24 June 2010 22:00:00 EDT