Tag: healthcare fraud
Doc Billed for Fake Vein Jobs, Gets $4 Million Slap
⏱ 2 min read A Baltimore-area doctor and his healthcare corporation allegedly raked in millions by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for fake vein treatments. CVR Management, LLC, and its CEO Sanjiv Lakhanpal, MD, FACS, agreed to pay the feds $4 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act violations. Between 2010 and 2016, the…
Medicaid Scam: St. Louis Woman Pleads Guilty
⏱ 3 min read Camille Childress, 41, of St. Louis County, confessed in federal court Thursday to running a brazen scheme to rip off Missouri Medicaid. Between 2021 and 2022, Childress’ company, Inspiring Angels LLC, allegedly pocketed at least $174,496 in bogus claims for home healthcare services that were never provided. The fraud wasn’t just…
Milwaukee Mom Bilks Pregnant Women, Gets 10 Years
Milwaukee – Markita Barnes, 33, will spend the next decade behind bars after a federal jury convicted her of a brazen scheme to steal over $2.3 million from a Wisconsin program designed to help vulnerable pregnant women and new mothers. Barnes received a 121-month sentence Monday, a harsh penalty reflecting the depth of her betrayal…
Alaska Doc Bilked $12.5M, Shortchanged Patients
Anchorage rheumatologist Claribel Tan, 61, will spend the next six and a half years in federal prison after admitting to a brazen, fifteen-year scheme that defrauded insurance companies out of $12.5 million. The scheme wasn’t a momentary lapse in judgment; it was a calculated, prolonged effort to line her pockets at the expense of vulnerable…
Army Families Ripped Off: $31M Kickback
⏱ 3 min read RELATED: CSAM Ring Leaders Face Decades RELATED: Rhode Island Man Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Theft and Misuse of COVID-19 Pandemic Assistance Robert L. Crites, 67, of Batesville, Mississippi, is on the hook for $31,039,134.82 after a federal judge found him liable for a brazen scheme to defraud TRICARE.…
Paint & Sip Scam: Medicare Bilked
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal, the owner of Bucks County’s Segal Arts, LLC, is paying a hefty price for allegedly turning senior care into a cash grab. Federal investigators say Segal defrauded Medicare out of $200,000 by billing the program for one-on-one occupational therapy sessions that never happened. Instead, vulnerable seniors in Pennsylvania and…
Medicare Grift: Florida Man Caged for 5 Years
⏱ 3 min read Ted Albin, 53, is trading Florida sunshine for a federal cell after a Manhattan jury slapped him with five years in prison. The charge? A cold-blooded Medicare scam that bled the system for over $12 million. Albin ran the operation from 2016 through April 2021, using his company, Grapevine Professional Services,…
Miami Grifter Gets Probation for Perjury
⏱ 3 min read Michael Luehrsen, 41, of Miami walked out of federal court in Buffalo yesterday with a sweetheart deal: three years probation. But that’s just the latest twist for a guy already facing serious fraud charges. Luehrsen wasn’t just accused of ripping off the healthcare system, he then doubled down by lying about…
Medicare Milked: Docs in Sanexas Scam
⏱ 3 min read Chiropractor Michael Glickert of St. Louis and emergency room physician Joseph Novof are facing federal charges after allegedly fleecing Medicare out of millions. The pair, operating clinics nationwide since late 2018, pushed unapproved electrical nerve stimulation using a device called Sanexas neoGEN, paired with medically unnecessary vitamin injections, then billed the…
Milwaukee Mom Swindled Medicaid for $2.3M
⏱ 3 min read Milwaukee mom Markita Barnes, 33, is starting a decade-plus stretch in federal prison after a jury convicted her of systematically looting Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. Barnes ran a prenatal care coordination company in Milwaukee and siphoned off a staggering $2,361,799.17 meant to help at-risk pregnant women and mothers with young children. The…
