tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2012 Issue 22

Industry Notes

$100 Million Medicare Fraudster Pleads GuiltyDavit Mirzoyan, who pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Henry B. Pitman, fraudulently billed Medicare for over $100 million from 2006 to 2010 by creating dozens of "phantom clinics," in which the health care providers existed only on paper, according to an Oct. 26 Department of Justice press release. "At least 118 fraudulent Medicare providers, located in approximately 25 states, submitted fraudulent bills to Medicare totaling approximately $100 million, and received approximately $35.7 million," the release added."Davit Mirzoyan was a criminal parasite feeding on a grand scale off our...

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