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A federal court in Boston has sentenced Robert Seidman, 56, of Plainview, New York, to 8 months in prison for participating in a Medicare kickback scheme involving medically unnecessary transcranial doppler (TCD) tests. Seidman previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute for his role in a network of referrals that drove unneeded […]

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Missouri have charged the owner of a Bridgeton-based home healthcare company and three associates with a $1.46 million Medicaid fraud scheme that allegedly involved falsified billing to the Missouri Medicaid Program. According to the indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court, Daniell Green, 48, along with Dejuan Bingham, Kimberly

A federal court in Boston has sentenced Timothy Doyle, 45, of Selden, New York, to 14 months in prison for his role in a Medicare kickback and healthcare fraud scheme that generated millions in improper claims. Doyle pleaded guilty in January 2025 to one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute for his participation

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York have unsealed a complaint charging Inwoo Kim and Daniel Lee, two men from Queens, with operating a major Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme that allegedly siphoned approximately $120 million from taxpayer-funded health programs. According to the Department of Justice announcement, the defendants used ownership of a

MultiCare Health System has agreed to pay $3.728 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly endangered patient safety and submitted fraudulent billing to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary spinal surgeries performed at its facilities. The settlement announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern

A federal court in the Middle District of North Carolina has sentenced Kathy Briggs, 65, to 24 months in prison, followed by 13 months of home detention and two years of supervised release, for her role in a multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme. Briggs pled guilty to one count of health care fraud related to fraudulent

A North Carolina physician, Dr. Steven L. Mendelsohn, has agreed to pay $549,554.26 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that he submitted reimbursement claims to Medicare for arthritis drugs that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina,

A federal court in the Central District of California recently ruled against JMG Investments Inc. and its owner, Jeffrey Schwartz, finding that they violated the False Claims Act by improperly obtaining and retaining duplicate Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court ordered the rehab center and its owner to pay $1,565,294.38

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments exceeded $6.8 billion in fiscal year 2025, the highest annual total in the statute’s history. More than $5.7 billion of this record level of recovery stemmed from healthcare fraud-related matters, demonstrating the government’s continued emphasis on policing improper billing, unlawful