Nelly Anderson, Health Care Kickbacks, Florida 2023

A Florida woman has been convicted of paying kickbacks in exchange for Medicare patient referrals.

Nelly Anderson, 58, of Bay Harbor Islands, was the owner of Dial 4 Care, a business that provided home health services to Medicare beneficiaries. She hired multiple marketers and paid them kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. Anderson then caused the submission of claims to Medicare for home health services that were procured through the payment of illegal kickbacks.

The jury convicted Anderson of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks, and two counts of paying kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 5 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for the conspiracy count and 10 years in prison for each of the kickback offenses.

The FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) investigated the case.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division; Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltri of the FBI Miami Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Omar Pérez Aybar of the HHS-OIG, Miami Regional Office made the announcement.

Since March 2007, the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program has charged more than 5,000 defendants who collectively have billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $24 billion.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/physical-therapist-convicted-paying-health-care-kickbacks