August 29, 2014

Austin, Texas-based Omni Surgical L.P. (doing business as Spine 360), a manufacturer of devices used in spinal surgery, and Dr. Jamie Gottlieb, an Indiana spinal surgeon, agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle allegations that Spine 360 paid illegal kickbacks to Gottlieb to induce him to use the company’s products in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute. According to the government, Spine 360 made payments to an...

August 20, 2014

Muhammad Aamir, owner of the three Michigan home health agencies Prestige Home Health Services, Platinum Home Health Services, and Empirical Home Health Care, pleaded guilty for his role in a $22 million home health care fraud scheme. Specifically, Aamir and his co-conspirators billed Medicare for home health care services that were not actually rendered, not medically necessary, and procured through paying illegal kickbacks. DOJ

August 7, 2014

Gary Lang, a CEO of an Atlanta-area hospital and Tracey Cota, the co-owner and chief operating officer of the Atlanta-based medical clinic chain Hispanic Medical Management, pleaded guilty for paying illegal kickbacks to clinics in exchange for Medicaid patient referrals. According to the government, Cota conspired with Lang and other executives from Atlanta-area hospitals and from a hospital on Hilton Head Island to pay kickbacks to Hispanic Medical Management for...

August 1, 2014

Olufunke Ibiyemi Fadojutimi, a registered nurse and former owner of Lutemi Medical Supply, a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company, was found guilty of health care fraud relating to a 10-year scheme in which Medicare was fraudulently billed more than $8 million for DME that was not medically necessary. The trial evidence showed that between September 2003 and January 2013, Fadojutimi and others paid cash kickbacks to patient recruiters and...

July 29, 2014

Armando Buchillon, former director of nursing for now defunct home health care company Anna Nursing Services Corp., pleaded guilty to participating in a $7M health care fraud scheme. According to court documents, Buchillon and his co-conspirators regularly falsified patient documents to make it appear they qualified for and received home health care services when in fact they did not. He also paid kickbacks and bribes to patient recruiters in return...

July 10, 2014

Four patient recruiters pleaded guilty in connection with a $20M health care fraud scheme involving the now defunct Miami-based home health care agency Trust Care Health Services. The defendants recruited patients for Trust Care and solicited and received kickbacks and bribes from the owners and operators of Trust Care in return for allowing the agency to bill the Medicare program on behalf of the recruited Medicare patients for home health...

June 27, 2014

Euridice Borroto, a patient recruiter for a Miami home health care agency pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Nestor’s Health Services Inc. The owner and operator of Nestor pleaded guilty to charges related to the scheme earlier this month. According to court documents, Borroto solicited and received kickbacks and bribes from Nestor in return for recruiting and providing patients...

June 23, 2014

Cruz Sonia Collado, the owner and operator of Nestor’s Health Services, a now-defunct Miami home health care agency, pleaded guilty to a $6.5M million health care fraud scheme. According to the government, Collado and her co-conspirators operated Nestor for the purpose of billing Medicare for expensive physical therapy and home health care services that were not medically necessary or never provided. As part of the scheme, Collado allegedly also paid...

June 19, 2014

Michael Mendoza, president of patient recruiting firm Network Resource Consultant Inc., pleaded guilty for his role in a $205M Medicare fraud scheme. According to court documents, Mendoza made an agreement with Lawrence Duran, owner of American Therapeutic Corporation, a now defunct partial hospitalization program located in Miami, under which Mendoza would refer residents living in assisted living facilities to ATC for medically unnecessary services in exchange for illegal kickbacks. Duran...

June 18, 2014

Lizette Garcia, a former office worker at Anna Nursing Services Corp., a now defunct Miami home health care company, pleaded guilty in connection with a $7M health care fraud scheme under which Anna Nursing paid kickbacks and bribes to patient recruiters in return for providing patients to Anna Nursing for home health care and therapy services that were medically unnecessary or never provided. DOJ