Top Ten Healthcare Fraud Recoveries of 2021
Posted 01/11/22
Chiropractic
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P-Stim Fraud: A New DOJ Enforcement Priority?
Posted 04/23/21
August 21, 2020
A Georgia-based chiropractor and her medical practice have been ordered to pay more than $5 million for violating the False Claims Act. The government alleged that Dr. Jennifer Heller, D.C. caused Medicare to pay $1.4 million more than it would have had it known that hundreds of Heller’s charges for a surgical neurostimulator procedure were in actuality for acupuncture devices, which are not covered by Medicare, and which do not require surgery. To resolve the charges, Heller Family Medicine, LLC will have to pay $4.3 million, while Heller herself will have to pay $700,000. USAO SDGAJuly 9, 2019
Two chiropractors who owned the Kansas City Health and Wellness Clinic have agreed to pay $350,000 to settle False Claims allegations. Brothers Ryan Schell and Tyler Schell allegedly billed Medicare for medically unnecessary, unprovided, or uncovered treatments of peripheral neuropathy, which causes loss of sensation and/or burning sensations in the hands and feet. USAO KSMarch 15, 2019
Long Island chiropractor Raymond R. Pellegrino pleaded guilty to charges arising from his fraudulent billing of private insurance companies. Pellegrino falsely billed Anthem Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield over $2 million for services claimed to have been provided by doctors employed by him, when knew those services had not, in fact, been provided. USAO EDNYMarch 6, 2018
Iowa chiropractor Bradley Brown and his clinic Brown Chiropractic, P.C. agreed to pay roughly $80,000 to settle claims they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by billing Medicare and Medicaid for chiropractic adjustments after providing free electrical stimulation to beneficiaries to influence those beneficiaries to receive chiropractic adjustments from Brown. DOJ (NDIA)January 24, 2018
Tennessee chiropractor Matthew Anderson agreed to pay $1.45 million to resolve allegations he violated the False Claims Act. Specifically, the government alleged that Anderson and his management company, PMC LLC, caused pharmacies to submit requests for Medicare and TennCare payments for pain killers dispensed based upon prescriptions written at the Cookeville Center for Pain Management, one of the pain clinics Anderson managed, which had no legitimate medical purpose. The government further alleged that Anderson caused four pain clinics he managed to bill Medicare for upcoded claims for office visits that were not reimbursable at the levels sought. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former office manager for the Cookeville Center for Pain Management under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The whistleblower will receive a whistleblower award of $246,500 from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJTennessee Chiropractor Pays More Than $1.45 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Posted 01/26/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
A Lenior City, Tennessee, chiropractor has paid $1.45 million, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act violations. Matthew Anderson and his management company, PMC LLC, managed four pain clinics in Tennessee, most recently known as; Cookeville Center for Pain Management; Spinal Pain Solutions in Harriman; Preferred Pain Center of Grundy County in Gruetli Laager; and McMinnville...