Cody Lee West, Health Care Fraud, Kansas 2024

Cody Lee West, a man who owned a medical imaging business, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for health care fraud.

West, 38, of Paragould, Ark., was ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid.

In 2024, West pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud.

C & S Imaging, Inc., a mobile independent diagnostic testing facility, provided ultra sound diagnostic testing to health care providers.

West admitted that he solicited chiropractors and told them he could provide equipment and an operator at no cost to them.

He fraudulently billed Medicare for musculoskeletal exams and Doppler scans that allowed him to receive up to $410 per patient for services that were not ordered by a physician, not medically necessary, not performed or not documented.

U.S. Attorney Tom Beall commended the Department of Health and Human Services, the Kansas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway for their work on the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/medical-imaging-provider-sentenced-federal-health-care-fraud