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Medical Clinic Owner Convicted in Health Care Fraud Scheme

A federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted the owner of a medical clinic, Michael Huynh, for his role in a health care fraud scheme and for filing false income tax returns.

Huynh, 66, of Northridge, California, was convicted on September 21, 2016, of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and 11 counts of filing false tax returns after a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II of the Central District of California.

The evidence introduced at trial showed that Huynh, the office manager and part-owner of the medical clinic, provided false prescriptions to a pharmacist and co-conspirator, Farhad N. Dany Sharim, who submitted false claims to insurance companies for drugs that were never dispensed.

Once Sharim received payments from the insurance companies, he paid Huynh for the false prescriptions. The trial evidence showed that between January 2004 and November 2009, Huynh received 82 checks from Sharim totaling over $1.1 million.

The trial evidence also demonstrated that Huynh filed false federal tax returns for tax years 2007 through 2011 that underreported the medical clinic’s gross receipts and sales on the corporate tax returns and total income on the individual tax returns.

The evidence at trial showed underreported income of over $1.6 million.

Sharim pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud on November 18, 2013, and will be sentenced on December 5, 2016.

The FBI, IRS-CI, and OPM-OIG investigated the case, which 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 of the Central District of California.

Fraud Section Trial Attorney Alexis Gregorian and Assistant United States Attorney Steven Arkow prosecuted the case.

Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, now operating in nine cities across the country, has charged nearly 2,900 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $10 billion.

Huynh will be sentenced on January 30, 2017.