March 6, 2019

A Texas woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $15 million for her role in a $50 million scheme involving healthcare fraud and money laundering. Daniela Gozes-Wagner was accused of running 28 fake medical testing facilities from 2009, and billing Medicare and Medicaid for tests that were not performed or medically necessary. As part of the scheme, she employed personnel to answer phones and prevent inspectors from entering “testing facilities” that were virtually empty. USAO SDTX

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