Twin siblings who ran a Medicare billing company have been charged for their alleged role in a $25 million scheme involving fraudulent durable medical equipment claims.
Erin Foley, 46 of Loxahatchee, Fla., and Ted Albin, 46, of Stuart, Fla., owned and controlled Grapevine Professional Services from at least 2018 through 2021, according to a Dec. 19 Justice Department news release. The pair used the company to bill Medicare for more than $25 million — of which they collected more than $9 million — through claims based on orders for durable medical equipment that had been allegedly unlawfully sold and bought.
The alleged fraudulent billing included both billing directly to Medicare through Medicare Part B and billing to private insurance companies that were reimbursed through Medicare Part C, according to the release.
Most of the alleged unlawful purchase orders were by Grapevine customers who were registered with Medicare as durable medical equipment supply companies, the release said. The pair also allegedly introduced customers who wished to unlawfully buy the equipment to co-conspirators in exchange for kickbacks.