Tag: Kickbacks
Doctor charged in $13.7M scheme
March 5, 2024HME News Staff
SPOKANE, Wash. – Dr. Thomas Andrew Webster of Sylvania, Ohio, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept kickbacks in connection with a fraudulent telemarketing and medical supply scheme throughout Washington and in other states, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. According to the plea agreement and information disclosed in court proceedings, between May 2021 and September 2023, Webster participated in a telemarketing scheme and conspiracy whereby a company...
Man charged in $97M brace scheme
February 27, 2024HME News Staff
NEWARK, N.J. – A Florida man has been charged with an indictment unsealed on Feb. 21 for this role in a DME kickback scheme that caused $97 million in losses to Medicare, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey. Raheel Naviwala, 35, of Coral Springs, Fla., is charged in a 10-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, three counts of health care fraud, two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to violate...
In brief: Philips settlement, Compass Health network, NHIA fellows
December 27, 2023HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO – Philips Respironics has paid almost $2.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by giving kickbacks to sleep laboratories, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California has announced.
The settlement resolves allegations that, from 2016 through 2021, Philips Respironics provided sleep labs with free masks used to treat and diagnose sleep-related respiratory disorders to induce physicians at the labs to write referrals...
Philips settles kickback allegations
December 26, 2023HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO – Philips Respironics has paid almost $2.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by giving kickbacks to sleep laboratories, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California has announced.
The settlement resolves allegations that, from 2016 through 2021, Philips Respironics provided sleep labs with free masks used to treat and diagnose sleep-related respiratory disorders to induce physicians at the labs to write referrals...
Woman arrested for $8.8M fraud scheme
June 7, 2022HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – A woman was arrested on June 1 in Hampton, Ga., on criminal charges related to her alleged scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing medically unnecessary DME that was then billed to Medicare. Kateline Lavache, 53, allegedly prescribed medically unnecessary DME for Medicare beneficiaries in exchange for kickbacks and bribes from her co-conspirators, according to an indictment. She allegedly had no prior relationship with the beneficiaries, was not treating them and failed to conduct...
Jury convicts three in $6.4M scheme
May 18, 2022HME News Staff
DALLAS – A federal jury here has convicted the owners and operators of four orthic brace suppliers in Texas and Arkansas for a $6.5 million illegal kickback scheme, including violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Bruce Stroud, 40, and Bobbi Stroud, 39, husband and wife and residents of Prosper, Texas, and Kenric Griffin, 52, of Frisco, Texas, jointly owned and operated New Horizons Durable Medical Equipment, Striffin Medical Supply, 4B Ortho Supply and Grace Professional DME, according to...
Gov't takes down scheme involving kickbacks, straw companies
November 18, 2020HME News Staff
NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a group of DME companies has admitted his role in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks in exchange for DME, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey has announced. Albert Davydov, 28, of Rego Park, N.Y., has pled guilty by videoconference before a U.S. district judge to an indictment charging him with conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback statute. Davydov, the owner of nine DME companies, participated in a scheme to pay kickbacks in exchange for orders...
Hollister, Byram settle for millions
May 3, 2016HME News Staff
BOSTON - Hollister and Byram Healthcare Centers have agreed to pay $11.4 million and $9.3 million, respectively, to resolve allegations that they engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase sales and profits, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced April 29. The settlement with Hollister resolves allegations that, from 2007 through 2014, it paid kickbacks to Byram in return for marketing promotions, conversion campaigns, and other referrals of patients to...