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Defendant Sentenced for Multi-Million Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme
MINNEAPOLIS—A 52-year-old man from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for executing a scheme to defraud Medicaid out of more than $500,000. United States District Court Judge David S. Doty handed down the sentence to Allwell Tam Inimgba, who was found guilty of one count of health care fraud.
Inimgba was charged on September 21, 2012, and pleaded guilty on October 9, 2012. As part of his plea agreement, Inimgba admitted to executing a scheme to defraud Medicaid by billing it for services supposedly provided by Registered Nurses (RNs) between January 2006 and March 2009. At the time, Inimgba was the responsible billing party for Victory Home Care, Inc. (Victory), a home health care agency that provided, or purported to provide, RN services to Medicaid recipients.
During the time period noted above, Inimgba billed Medicaid for more than 20,000 hours of services supposedly provided to various clients by RNs, and Medicaid paid Victory more than $1,400,000 as a result of those claims. However, RNs provided far less care than noted in Victory’s claims. In fact, approximately $513,734 awarded to Victory was ultimately found to be for work not done by RNs.
This case was the result of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Attorney General Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Genrich.
The Justice Department has been cracking down on health care fraud investigations, with a growing number of cases being filed nationwide. In 2008, the Justice Department filed criminal charges in 502 health care fraud cases involving 797 defendants. In Minnesota, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is participating in a task force with the Minnesota Attorney General Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that focuses on home health care fraud.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General has been working closely with law enforcement partners to tackle the problem of health care fraud. The Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team will look at how to share more effectively real-time intelligence data on health care fraud patterns as well as critical information about health care services, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
For more information on health care fraud, visit the Stop Medicare Fraud website at www.stopmedicarefraud.gov.
Key Facts
- State: Minnesota
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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