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   Criminal and Civil Enforcement | Fraud | Office of Inspector General | U.S.   
   Department of Health and Human Services    
      
   June 2015 Update    
      
      
      
      
   June 26, 2015; U.S. Department of Justice    
   Former OtisMed CEO Sentenced for Selling Unapproved Surgical Devices    
   The former president and CEO of OtisMed Corporation was sentenced today to   
   serve two years in prison for intentionally distributing a medical device used   
   in knee replacement surgery after its application for marketing clearance had   
   been rejected by the    
   Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Justice announced.    
   June 26, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Eastern District of Missouri    
   Local Physician Sentenced on Health Care Fraud Charges   
   St. Louis, MO - DR. DEVON GOLDING was sentenced yesterday to four months   
   imprisonment and eight months home detention on multiple health care fraud   
   related charges for billing for services not rendered and false statements   
   involving a health care benefit    
   plan. Dr. Golding will also have to pay over $145,000 in restitution.    
   June 24, 2015; U.S. Department of Justice    
   Owners of Orlando Health Care Clinic Plead Guilty to Engaging in $2.5 Million   
   Medicare Fraud Scheme    
   Husband and wife owners of an Orlando health care clinic pleaded guilty today   
   to engaging in a $2.5 million health care fraud scheme.    
   June 24, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Eastern District of New York    
   Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud And Obstruction Of   
   Medicare Audit    
   Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Melvin   
   Cwibeker, a doctor of chiropractic medicine from Nassau County, New York, pled   
   guilty to healthcare fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, and he agreed   
   to pay restitution and    
   a $500,000 forfeiture.    
   June 23, 2015; U.S. Attorney; District of Connecticut    
   APRN Admits Receiving Kickbacks from Drug Company for Prescribing Pain   
   Medication    
   Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut,   
   announced that HEATHER ALFONSO, 42, of Middlebury, waived her right to   
   indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea   
   in Hartford to receiving    
   kickbacks in relation to a federal healthcare program.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Western District of Tennessee    
   Nurse Practitioner Indicted for Identity Theft, Defrauding More Than $330,000   
   in Health Care Services    
   Jackson, TN - A nurse practitioner has been indicted for forging the signature   
   of a physician on nearly 150 treatment forms, causing Medicare and TennCare to   
   disburse more than $330,000 in payments for unauthorized services.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Department of Justice Medicare Fraud Strike Force Case    
   National Medicare Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against 243 Individuals   
   for Approximately $712 Million in False Billing    
   Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services   
   (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today a nationwide sweep led   
   by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 17 districts, resulting in charges   
   against 243 individuals,    
   including 46 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for   
   their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately   
   $712 million in false billings. In addition, the Centers for Medicare &   
   Medicaid Services (CMS) also    
   suspended a number of providers using its suspension authority as provided in   
   the Affordable Care Act. This coordinated takedown is the largest in Strike   
   Force history, both in terms of the number of defendants charged and loss   
   amount.    
   HHS-OIG Fact Sheet    
   U.S. Department of Justice Documents    
   Video: Daniel R. Levinson's Gives Remarks at Health Care Fraud Takedown Press   
   Conference    
   Related Report: Ensuring the Integrity of Medicare Part D (OEI-03-15-00180)    
   Related Report: Questionable Billing and Geographic Hotspots Point to   
   Potential Fraud and Abuse in Medicare Part D (OEI-02-15-00190)    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Department of Justice    
   Covenant Hospice Inc. to Pay $10.1 Million for Overcharging Medicare, Tricare   
   and Medicaid for Hospice Services    
   On June 18, Covenant Hospice Inc. agreed to pay $10,149,374 to reimburse the   
   government for alleged overbilling of Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid for   
   hospice services, the Department of Justice announced today. Covenant Hospice   
   Inc. is a non-profit    
   hospice care provider which operates in Southern Alabama and the Florida   
   Panhandle.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Attorney; District of Connecticut    
   Ridgefield Doctor Pays $218,633 to Settle Allegations under the False Claims   
   Act    
   Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today   
   announced that EDWARD BERMAN, MD, a physician with a practice in Ridgefield,   
   has entered into a civil settlement with the government in which he will pay   
   $218,633 to resolve    
   allegations that BERMAN violated the False Claims Act.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Eastern District of Pennsylvania    
   Health Care Fraud Sentence Handed Down    
   PHILADELPHIA - Jermaine Hairston, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today   
   to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for health care   
   fraud and aggravated identity theft. Hairston stole the personal identifying   
   information of an    
   emergency room physician and used it to call in fake prescriptions for   
   expensive medications in the names of individuals on medical assistance.   
   Hairston, and others, would pick up the prescription medication, generating a   
   claim to the patient's health    
   insurance, and then sell the medication for cash.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Western District of Tennessee    
   Nurse Practitioner Indicted for Identity Theft, Defrauding More Than $330,000   
   in Health Care Services    
   Jackson, TN - A nurse practitioner has been indicted for forging the signature   
   of a physician on nearly 150 treatment forms, causing Medicare and TennCare to   
   disburse more than $330,000 in payments for unauthorized services.    
   June 18, 2015; U.S. Attorney; Southern District of Illinois Medicare Fraud   
   Strike Force Case    
   United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton Announces "Home Alone IV" And   
   Nationwide Takedown Of Health Care Scams    
      
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