27 year old Alejandro Haber was busy running a Detroit-area
health clinic. But that’s not all he was
running.
Haber was also running a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud
scheme.
Haber conceived and oversaw his fraud schemes at a clinic he
operated called Ritecare, LLC. Along
with his co-conspirators, he obtained patients by paying illegal kickbacks to
recruiters and directly to Medicare recipients.
Haber instructed these patients to feign certain
symptoms. These fake symptoms were used
to create false and fraudulent medical records.
The conspirators then billed Medicare for medically unnecessary services
such as expensive nerve conduction studies.
From 2007 to 2009, Haber submitted approximately $7.42
million in fraudulent claims through Ritecare to the Medicare program for
reimbursement. Out of this amount,
Medicare actually paid $5.33 million to Ritecare.
Haber has since pleaded guilty in federal court to one count
of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
He was sentenced to serve 40 months in federal prison followed by three
years of supervised release.
Additionally, he must pay restitution of $5,333,906 – the amount he fraudulently
received. $99,000 has already been
seized from his bank accounts – although this hardly makes a dent in the amount
he owes.
Medicare fraud must run in the family – Alejandro’s father
was also sentenced in July to 60 months in prison for his role in an $8.5
million Medicare fraud scheme.
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