(Texas Results Card)-Like the part of the Department of Justice Department of the Department of Health Care, more than a dozen persons from the Houston area are accused.
Throughout the country, 321 persons have been charged with numerous health care crimes, including wire fraud, bribery and other fraudulent schemes. In total, DOJ revealed nearly $ 15 billion in dishonest claims, and the US seized more than $ 245 million.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi commented on the operation, saying, “This record -listed healthcare fraud” Takedown “gives justice to criminal actors who plundering our most vulnerable citizens and stealing American taxpayers. Remove the error-this administration will not tolerate criminals who will smooth out their pockets with taxpayers’ dollars.
According to DOJ, 22 cases alone in Houston were announced on Monday.
These cases include numerous health care fraud schemes, including illegal distribution of controlled substances – some of which ended in the black market – along with hospital fraud, attacks and Medicare/Medicaid fraud associated with unnecessary genetic tests, medical equipment and more.
Among the most striking cases are Ogudo (39) and Victoria Martinez (35), both of Richmond, who are accused of managing the hospital’s office, which was issued by Medicare and Medicaid for the end of care, while deceiving patients that they receive standard palliative or home services. The alleged Ogudo also paid bribes and echoes dr. Carlos Munoz, who certified patients for hospital care. The total fraud scheme is estimated to be $ 110 million and Munoz allegedly received more than $ 300,000.
Keilan Peterson and Kimberly Martinez from Houston were accused of their alleged roles in cash for the recipe scheme operating at the Medical Center and Grovecare Clinic.
According to the indictment, Peterson paid three licensed doctors for being able to use his own electronic access to Martinez and other clinicians. This allowed them to betray many of the recipes for controlled substances, including hydrocodone, carisoprodol and oxycodone, without legal medical need.
The indictment also states that Peterson has handed over some of these prescriptions to his business, another level of pharmacy, where he purchased medicines and illegally redistributed them in the black market. In total, Peterson and his fellow people are accused of publishing more than two million tablets, most of which were abandoned without medical justification and without the external professional standards.
David Jenson, Woodlands, and his business partner Nestor Rafael Romero Magalanes has been accused of 14 calculations for a healthcare fraud for the alleged account for Medicare for expensive bioengine skin transplants for chronic wound treatment. The couple allegedly received more than $ 45 million. USD compensation.
Brandis Williams, the owner of Houston pharmacy, accused of paying an attack on an unnamed podiatric in exchange for unnecessary recipe sendings. Her pharmacy reportedly received more than $ 4 million in this scheme.
Tyneza Mitchell, a licensed nurse, allegedly received $ 2.1 million.
Chad Harper is accused of using Shell from Pearland to pay bribes and attack marketers who have set up a business for his laboratories. In the indictment, Medicare compensated about $ 73 million to Harper.
Rami Abunakira, a resident of Richmond related to the Dallas Laboratory, is accused of Medicare’s expense for $ 33.5 million. USD for unnecessary genetic testing.
Mahmood Sami Kahn and Suhasib Ahmad Chaudry, two men of Houston, accused of in the state of Illinois, accused of deceptive Covid-19 test operations. The couple allegedly manipulated the Texas and Illinois laboratories to make false requirements through the federal compensation program, receiving more than $ 293 million. Kahn is also accused of fraud.
US lawyer Nicholas J. Ganje replied a broad operation: “Americans rely on Medicare to get the necessary treatment and rescue care. [who] Bilk This Fund illegally enrich itself steal from taxpayers and ruins public confidence in our health system. Today, Takewn is a reminder to future medical fraud that the Department of Justice is always guarding the public FISC. ‘