Medical Equipment Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Nutritional Supplies And “Arthritis Kits”

The owner and operator of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program. Noel Wayne Jhagroo, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Vanessa...

Fifty-three People Indicted in $50 Million Medicare Fraud

53 people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $50 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Detroit. The Strike Force in Detroit is the third phase of a targeted criminal, civil and...

Missouri Health Care System to Pay U.S. $60 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, a health care system headquartered in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to pay the United States to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute between 1996 and 2005, by...

Owner of Medical Equipment Company Sentenced to 130 Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud

A Miami resident was sentenced to 130 months in prison for his role in schemes to defraud the Medicare program, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District...