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Medicare Scam Mastermind Pleads Guilty
A former Los Angeles medical clinic management company owner, Mihran ‘Mike’ Meguerian, has pleaded guilty to his role in a $3.2 million Medicare scam. Meguerian, 37, of Glendale, California, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Beverly R. O’Connell in the Central District of California.
According to court documents, Meguerian owned Med Serve Management (Med Serve), a medical clinic management company located in Van Nuys, California. The scheme involved writing prescriptions for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs and other durable medical equipment (DME), which were then sold to DME supply companies. These companies submitted the fraudulent prescriptions to Medicare in false and fraudulent claims.
Between July 2008 and February 2009, DME supply companies submitted approximately $3,367,661 in fraudulent claims to Medicare using the fake prescriptions from Meguerian’s clinics, and Medicare paid out approximately $1,438,760 for those claims.
Meguerian’s sentencing is scheduled for November 17, 2014. The case was investigated by the FBI and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which is supervised by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged over 1,900 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program more than $6 billion since its inception in March 2007. The strike force operates in nine cities across the country and is working to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.
To learn more about the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), visit: www.stopmedicarefraud.gov
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: White Collar Crime|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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