A Detroit-area adult day care center owner has been brought to justice for her role in a massive $10 million psychotherapy fraud scheme. Checarol Robinson, 41, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and three counts of health care fraud in the Eastern District of Michigan.
According to the indictment, Robinson owned group homes inhabited by Medicare beneficiaries. In return for payments, Robinson allegedly provided these Medicare beneficiaries’ information to a fraudulent psychotherapy company to be used to bill Medicare for psychotherapy services that were not provided and/or not medically necessary.
The indictment also states that Robinson later owned and operated P&C Adult Day Center, which purported to provide psychotherapy services. Robinson allegedly falsely billed Medicare for individual and group therapy services that were not provided by P&C and/or not medically necessary using the Medicare beneficiaries from her group homes.
Caldwell Thompson and P&C allegedly submitted more than $10 million of false claims to Medicare in the course of the conspiracy. Robinson’s co-conspirator from the scheme, a licensed social worker, would sign patient charts for psychotherapy services purportedly performed at P&C that were medically unnecessary and never performed.
Robbins is set to be sentenced on December 4, 2012, and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.
The case was investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG, and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged more than 1,330 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $4 billion since its inception in March 2007.
Checarol Robinson, Defendant:
Full name: Checarol Robinson
Criminal charges: Conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud
City and state: Detroit, Michigan
Exact date: Not available
Sentence or outcome: Pleaded guilty, faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine
Dollar amounts: $10 million
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Key Facts
- State: Michigan
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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