March 13, 2019

Following an earlier guilty plea, Waveney Blackman, the owner of Washington, D.C. durable medical equipment company WaveCare Health Services, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for her role in submitting nearly $10 million in fraudulent claims to Medicaid for would care products that were not actually purchased and provided.  Blackman was also ordered to forfeit $9.4 million and pay restitution in the same amount.  DOJ; USAO DC

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