Tag: Medicaid
Adnan Arshad, Healthcare Fraud and Money Laundering, New York 2023
⏱ 2 min read Adnan Arshad, the owner of a Long Island ambulette services company, was sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme. The scheme, which stole over $19 million from Medicaid, was carried out in Long Island, New York, and involved Arshad conspiring to commit healthcare…
Gwendolyn Singleton, Health Care Fraud, North Carolina 2026
⏱ 2 min read Gwendolyn Singleton, a 55-year-old woman from Guilford County, pleaded guilty to health care fraud in connection with a scheme to bill North Carolina Medicaid for over $1.7 million in urine drug tests that were never performed. The scam took place between June 2021 and March 2023 at Joelle’s Center of Hope…
Sherif Elmasri, Boris Veysman, Stephanie Cupo, Healthcare Fraud, New Jersey 2023
⏱ 2 min read Six individuals, including a doctor and a pharmacist, have been charged in connection with a $20 million healthcare fraud and kickback scheme in New Jersey. The scheme, which involved medically unnecessary prescriptions and cash kickbacks, was carried out by a group of medical professionals who betrayed their patients for personal gain.…
Mouhamad Bazzi, Medicare Fraud, Maryland 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Maryland oncology practice, Progressive Oncology & Hematology, and its owner, Mouhamad Bazzi, MD, have agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle allegations of fraudulent billing for chemotherapy services in Frederick, MD. The practice allegedly submitted claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs for reimbursement for chemotherapy…
Saad Aziz and Zabed Chowdhury, Health Care Fraud, New York 2023
⏱ 2 min read Saad Aziz and Zabed Chowdhury, also known as ‘Jared’, have been charged with running a multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme in New York. The duo allegedly offered and paid health care kickbacks and submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for ambulette services to medical appointments that were not performed, or the…
Tera Marie Campbell, Healthcare Fraud, Wyoming 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Florida mother-daughter duo, Tera Marie Campbell and Tayler Ann Krauss, orchestrated a multi-year healthcare fraud scheme in Wyoming, using Campbell’s behavioral health clinic, The Olive Branch, LLC, to submit fraudulent Medicaid claims for uncertified care and services that did not occur. The clinic, which operated in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Minot,…
Tonya Crowder, Demetrius Onuaguluchi, Marlene Durham, Health Care Fraud, Texas 2026
⏱ 2 min read Nine individuals in the Houston area and one from Nevada have been indicted for their roles in various health care fraud schemes, including pill mill clinics and attempts to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. The alleged fraud totals over $1 billion. The schemes involved illegal drug diversion, improper wound care treatment…
Marisol Rodriguez, Medicaid Fraud, Connecticut 2023
⏱ 2 min read Marisol Rodriguez, a 49-year-old Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), defrauded Connecticut’s Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for medication management services that were never provided. The scheme, which took place in Connecticut, involved Rodriguez billing Medicaid for services she never rendered, including to patients who had stopped seeing her, were hospitalized,…
Salud Para La Gente, Medicaid Fraud, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read Salud Para La Gente, a nonprofit network of primary care clinics in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicaid for misbranded contraceptives. Between May 17, 2017, and September 11, 2020, Salud purchased and administered misbranded etonogestrel, marketed under the…
Dr. Michael David, Healthcare Fraud, California 2019
⏱ 2 min read A St. Louis chiropractor and his partners in crime peddled pain pills to unsuspecting patients, ripping off Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare for millions. Jerry Leech, 53, of Clayton, got 100 months in the slammer for his role in the racket. Leech, along with co-conspirators Dr. Stanley Librach of Chesterfield and Dr.…
