The program administrator for a behavioral health company was convicted of charges related to a Medicaid billing fraud scheme.
Lambert Mbom, 50, of Riverdale, Md., was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud and for conspiracy to make false statements relating to healthcare matters, according to an Aug. 16 Justice Department news release. He was acquitted of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Mr. Mbom was the program administrator for Washington, D.C.-based Holy Health Care Services. He and others paid people to come into the office and then used their personally identifiable information to bill Medicaid for services that were not rendered or not rendered as billed, according to the release.
He faces up to 25 years in prison.
Holy Health's owners, Julius Bakari and Mboutchock Kabiwa, previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the scheme and will be sentenced in November, the release said.