DME owner sentenced to two-plus years in prison

RALEIGH, N.C. – Shelly Phillips Bandy, co-owner of A Perfect Fit For You, a DME company based here, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release on a charge of Making Material False Statements Relating to Healthcare Matters. In December, Bandy admitted to submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid on behalf of A Perfect Fit.  Specifically, she admitted that on Jan. 1, 2016, she billed Medicaid for 43 fraudulent claims, totaling $626,773.79, with Medicaid subsequently paying $374,809.92 for the claims. Bandy is also liable for a civil judgment of about $34.7 million arising from the same conduct.