October 27, 2017
The co-owner of a home health care agency will serve 10 years in prison and pay more than $23 million after a Texas federal jury found her guilty of conspiring with several others to defraud government health care programs of $374 million, prosecutors said Friday.
August 09, 2017
A Texas doctor described by federal prosecutors as a "menace" who orchestrated a $374 million Medicare fraud — the single largest in the country's history — was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison, a term the judge said he intended to be an effective life sentence.
August 01, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Monday shut down a Dallas-area doctor and two home health agency owners' bids to escape their convictions for running a $374 million Medicare billing fraud ring, ruling there was sufficient evidence backing the jury's decision.
July 26, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a home health care company owner convicted of health care fraud to four years in prison, rejecting an argument from prosecutors that her role in an alleged $374 million Medicare fraud scheme merited a harsher sentence.
June 13, 2017
A home-care magnate convicted in a $374 million Medicare billing-fraud ring was sentenced Tuesday to serve 17.5 years in prison and pay millions in restitution, Texas federal prosecutors said.
May 06, 2016
Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a Texas federal court not to grant a new trial to a Dallas doctor and three home-care magnates convicted in a $374 million billing fraud ring, insisting that there was ample evidence of every element of the alleged crime.
April 27, 2016
The co-owner of a Dallas home health care agency asked a Texas federal judge for a new trial Tuesday, after a jury convicted her and three cohorts earlier this month of billing Medicare and Medicaid more than $374 million for unnecessary treatments.
April 11, 2016
Wrapping up a five-week trial, federal prosecutors on Monday told a Texas federal jury a Dallas area doctor is guilty of organizing a $374 million Medicare fraud by working with home health care agency owners to solicit 11,000 patients to sign up for unneeded treatments.
March 09, 2016
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday told a Texas federal jury a doctor who felt frustrated that he wasn't more successful billed $374 million to Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary treatments to home health care patients, in what prosecutors say is the largest such fraud in the country.
January 20, 2016
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the co-owner of a home health care company to 10 years in prison for her role in a health care fraud conspiracy for which her husband is serving the same sentence, according to court documents.