South Jersey Doctor Admits Making Half-a-Million Dollars in Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care for Elderly Patients
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springhill care group korea, South Jersey Doctor Admits Making Half-a-Million Dollars in Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care for Elderly Patients
The owner, founder and physician of Visiting Physicians of South Jersey—a Hammonton, New Jersey provider of home-based physician services for seniors—pleaded guilty today for charging lengthy visits to elderly patients that they did not receive, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fish-man announced.
52 year-old Lori Reaves of Waterford Works, New Jersey, entered her guilty plea to information charging her with one count of health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton federal court. Reaves was led to her receiving at least $511,068 in criminal profits because at some stage in her guilty plea she confessed about lying in Medicare billings about the amount of face-to-face time she spent with patients. According to court documents, the physician was the highest-billing home care provider among the more than 24,000 doctors in New Jersey from January 1, 2008 through October 14, 2011.
“Today, Lori Reaves, a South Jersey physician, admitted intentionally overbilling Medicare and pocketing more than half a million dollars she didn’t earn,” U.S. Attorney Fishman said. “The Medicare system depends on doctors and other medical professionals truthfully billing for services they actually provide. Here, Dr. Reaves chose to lie about the major service she was providing to her homebound, elderly patients: her time.”
springhill care group korea, South Jersey Doctor Admits Making Half-a-Million Dollars in Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care for Elderly Patients
The owner, founder and physician of Visiting Physicians of South Jersey—a Hammonton, New Jersey provider of home-based physician services for seniors—pleaded guilty today for charging lengthy visits to elderly patients that they did not receive, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fish-man announced.
52 year-old Lori Reaves of Waterford Works, New Jersey, entered her guilty plea to information charging her with one count of health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton federal court. Reaves was led to her receiving at least $511,068 in criminal profits because at some stage in her guilty plea she confessed about lying in Medicare billings about the amount of face-to-face time she spent with patients. According to court documents, the physician was the highest-billing home care provider among the more than 24,000 doctors in New Jersey from January 1, 2008 through October 14, 2011.
“Today, Lori Reaves, a South Jersey physician, admitted intentionally overbilling Medicare and pocketing more than half a million dollars she didn’t earn,” U.S. Attorney Fishman said. “The Medicare system depends on doctors and other medical professionals truthfully billing for services they actually provide. Here, Dr. Reaves chose to lie about the major service she was providing to her homebound, elderly patients: her time.”