3 Found Guilty in $15M Medicare Fraud Scheme in Detroit

A federal grand jury has convicted a physical therapist, a physical therapy assistant and an unlicensed medical school graduate in a $15 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

 Through the use of several Detroit area home healthcare companies, the three convicted individuals committed healthcare fraud from July 2008 to September 2011. The fraud scheme involved submitting false claims to Medicare for services that were never provided, according to the report.

The convicted individuals also created Livonia, Mich.-based Phoenix Visiting Physicians, a home healthcare company that employed unlicensed physicians to get patients to sign paperwork that allowed the company to refer the patients for medically unnecessary services, according to the report.

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