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Muhammad Zishan, Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read In a shocking case of Medicaid fraud, three Latham taxi operators and employees have been charged in a $660,000 scam that involved false claims, illegal kickbacks, and inducements to generate Medicaid reimbursements. Muhammad Zishan, Madiha Javed, and Ghazali Shaikh were indicted by a federal grand jury in Albany, New York, as…
Pharmacy Tech, Prescription Forgery, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read A brazen pharmacy tech sold fake scripts for cash, ripping off Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for a staggering $5.6 million. Ali Naserdean, 32, of Dearborn Heights, worked at three metro-Detroit pharmacies from 2019 to 2022. Naserdean and his co-conspirator flooded health care benefit programs with false…
James Robert Johnson, Medicare Fraud, Virginia 2020
⏱ 2 min read Tri-Area Community Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Roanoke, VA, has been caught bilking Medicare out of $513,000. For nearly four years, the clinic faked doctor’s supervision on Annual Wellness Visits, raking in the cash for phony medical exams. Between August 2022 and December 2025, pharmacists at the clinic performed…
Alexandria Williams, Medicare Fraud, Massachusetts 2018
⏱ 2 min read A Massachusetts-based doctor is facing heat over a lucrative scheme to bilk Medicare out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for unnecessary orthotics. Dr. Alexandria Williams, a licensed physician in Massachusetts, allegedly signed orders for medically unnecessary braces for Medicare beneficiaries she never examined and who often didn’t want or need…
Hasan Jermel Pulliam, Health Care Fraud, Alabama 2022
⏱ 2 min read A former Anniston, Alabama, Medicaid provider is headed to the slammer for 54 months after scamming the system out of nearly $720,000. Hasan Jermel Pulliam, 54, was sentenced on April 2, 2026, for health care fraud and identity theft offenses. The scheme went down in 2022, with Pulliam allegedly submitting false…
Valinda R. Nwadike, Medicare Fraud, Maryland 2018
⏱ 2 min read Valinda R. Nwadike, a Maryland gynecologist, has agreed to pay $507,500 to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act. The scheme, which took place from November 1, 2014, through January 1, 2018, involved Nwadike creating and signing thousands of fraudulent prescriptions for compounded drugs and durable medical equipment, such as…
Irina Segal, Medicare Bill Inflation, Pennsylvania 2023
PHILADELPHIA – Bucks County’s Segal Arts, LLC, and owner Irina Segal avoided criminal charges, but will repay $200,000 to Medicare after a federal investigation revealed a scheme to inflate bills. The company allegedly billed the program for one-on-one occupational therapy that never happened, instead offering group art sessions at nursing homes in Pennsylvania and New…
Irina Segal, Medicare Fraud, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal, the owner of Segal Arts, LLC in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just got burned for turning arts and crafts hour into a Medicare money-grab. The feds say she was billing the program for individualized occupational therapy… when she was actually leading group sessions – think coloring books, not physical rehabilitation…
Irina Segal, Medicare Billing Scam, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal, the owner of Segal Arts, LLC, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just got a slap on the wrist for a cold-blooded scheme to bilk Medicare out of $200,000. Segal billed the federal health program for individualized occupational therapy sessions for elderly patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey assisted living facilities…
Irina Segal, Medicare Billing Fraud, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal and her company, Segal Arts, LLC, are paying up $200,000 after a federal probe revealed they were billing Medicare for one-on-one occupational therapy that never happened. The scheme, which unfolded across assisted living facilities and adult day care centers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, essentially swapped medical rehabilitation for…
