DME owner sentenced in Medicaid fraud case

MCALLEN, Texas - Anna Ramirez-Ambriz, owner of Compassionate Medical Supply in Edinburg, Texas, has been sentenced to 78 months in jail and ordered to pay more than $3 million in restitution for fraudulently billing Texas Medicaid for incontinence supplies. From 2007 through 2013, Ramirez-Ambriz billed the Medicaid program for higher quantities and more costly incontinence supplies than were actually delivered to more than 100 beneficiaries. As a result, Texas Medicaid suffered a loss of $3.1 million.