Medicare Law
 
United States of America v. Anthony Duane Bell, Sr. and nthony Duane Bell, Jr.

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently receiving more than $21 million in Medicare payments.

Anthony Duane Bell, Sr. and nthony Duane Bell, Jr. created companies known as Universal Medical Solutions 1 and Universal Medical Solutions 2, with locations in Santee and San Diego. The companies supplied durable medical equipment like knee,

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United States of America v. Billy Joe Taylor

Fort Smith, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering.

Billy Joe Taylor, age 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering on October 27, 2022. According to court documents, Taylor and his co-conspirators submitted more than $134 million in false and fraudulent claims

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United States of America v. Rachel Peay-Goodman

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully prescribing controlled substances and submitting false claims to Medicare while working for AmeriHealth in Pocatello.

Rachel Peay-Goodman, a nurse practitioner in eastern Idaho, wrote prescriptions for dangerous combinations of drugs to at least one patient, including simultaneous prescriptions for oxycodo

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Brittany L. Mogan v. Social Security Administration

Rochester, New York social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.

"DIWC and DIWW are types of Social Security Disability benefits that are available to certain disabled workers and their widows or widowers.

DIWC stands for Disabled Individual with Children. To qualify for DIW

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United States of America v. Steven King

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud and wire fraud.

Steven King, 45, of Miramar, was the chief compliance officer of a pharmacy holding company that fraudulently billed Medicare over $50 million for dispensing lidocaine and diabetic testing supplies that Medicare beneficiaries did not need or want. King and his co-conspirators

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Melinda Griffin v. Social Security Disability

Dayton, Ohio social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW.

DIWC (Disabled Insured Worker’s Claim)

Disability program for adults who have worked enough to have “insured status” under the Social Security System. For disability, a worker must have worked above a minimum amou

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Michael John Shoops v. Social Security Administration

Flint, Michigan social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.

DIWC (Disabled Insured Worker’s Claim)

Disability program for adults who have worked enough to have “insured status” under the Social Security System. For disability, a worker must have worked ab

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Dana M. Brown v. Social Security Administration

Grand Rapids, Michigan social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff who seeking review of the denial of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.

DIWC (Disabled Insured Worker’s Claim)
Disability program for adults who have worked enough to have “insured status” under the Social Security System. For disability, a worker must have wo

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United States of America v. Akintunde Oyewale

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

Akintunde Oyewale, Richmond, pleaded guilty Feb. 1, 2022.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner ordered he serve 57 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release. At the hearing, the defense requested a reduced sentence due to

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United States of America ex rel. et al v. Georgia Pain Management, P.C. et al.

Atlanta, Georgia civil litigation lawyer represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

James Ellner, M.D., and his Woodstock, Georgia pain management practice, Georgia Pain Management, P.C., and ambulatory surgical center, Samson Pain Center, P.C, agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting improper claims t

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United States of America v. Steven Powell

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment without ever seeing, speaking to, or otherwise examining patients.

Steven Powell, 53, of Alpharetta, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro

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United States of America v. Kenneth Wiseman, P.D. and Steven Schmidt, D.O.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants accused to violating the False Claims Act allegations that they caused the submission of false claims by misrepresenting the severity of illness and services rendered to increase reimbursement from the Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) and Part B programs.

Defendants did business as "CPA," a primary care phy

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United States of America v. Deeana Burr

Charleston, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that Deeana Burr, age 54, of Charleston, South Carolina, a licensed nurse practitioner who became a 15% co-owner of Atlantic Coast Integrated Medicine (ACIM) in September 2017, participated in scheme to defraud Medi

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United States of America v. Christopher Margait

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud by fraudulently trafficking in orders for durable medical equipment such as back, knee, and wrist braces.

From at least August 2019 through May 2021, Christopher Margai and his co-defendant, Matthew Taylor Witkowski, engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare by illegal

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United States of America v. Complete Physician Services, Kenneth Wiseman, DO, and Steven Schmidt, DO

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants accused of submitting false claims by misrepresenting the severity of illness and services rendered to increase reimbursement from the Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) and Part B programs.

CPS, a primary care physician practice located in Philadelphia, treated patients under the Medicare Advantage program and

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In re HIV Antitrust Litigation

San Francisco, California consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who brought a class action case against various pharmaceutical companies claiming that violated antitrust laws.


Currently pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' motion to exclude in which Plaintiffs seek to limit testimony from Defendants' damages expert Dr. Jena. Dr. Jena filed a supplemental report on May 11, /2

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United States of America v. Dr. Ndudi Aniemeka and Obiageli Aniemeka

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with lawfully seeking and receiving kickbacks from a home health agency as payment for the doctor’s referrals of Medicare patients.

DR. NDUDI ANIEMEKA owns Boycin Medical Clinic in Chicago, and his wife, OBIAGELI ANIEMEKA, serves as the clinic’s administrator. In 2009 and 2010, the Aniemekas asked for

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United States of America v. Gary S. Winn, D.O.

Portland, Maine civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a False Claims Act violation theory.

Gary S. Winn, D.O., the false former medical director and owner of a family medical practice in Biddeford and Sanford, Provider’s Care, submitted false claims to Medicare and MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program) from January 2014 through November 2017. Ma

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United States of America v. Kelly McCallum

Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud.

Kelly McCallum, 41, of Dyersburg, was an advance practice registered nurse who operated Convenient Care Clinic and held a registration from the DEA, which allowed her to prescribe controlled substances. From January 2017 until early 2021, McCal

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United States of America v. United Wound Healing P.S.

Seattle, Washington civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused for fraudulently billing the federal government for health care services that were never performed.

The U.S. Department of Justice, the Washington State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division, accused United Wound Healing, P.S. with violating the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare an

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United States of America v. 1st Adult & Pediatrics Healthcare Services

Lynchburg, Virginia civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act.

From 2017 and continuing through May 2021, 1st Adult & Pediatrics. headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, billed Virginia Medicaid for reimbursements for in-home health care services for pediatric patients who were actually hospitalized at the time the in-home services were billed. I

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United States of America v. Keovilayvanh Rinthalukay

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with willful failure to pay over taxes.

Keovilayvanh Rinthalukay, 62, pleaded guilty in February 2023, admitting that between 2015 and 2019 he withheld Medicare, Social Security, and federal income taxes from his employees’ paychecks, but instead of paying the taxes to the government, he pocketed the money fo

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Aaron Shiloh, ex rel. United States of America v. Philadelphia Vascular Institute, LLC, et al.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that Dr. James McGuckin violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for medically unnecessary invasive peripheral artery procedures in patients’ legs between at least January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2019, and for which McGuckin

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United States of America, et al. v. Dr. Joel Aronowitz, et al.

Los Angeles, California civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to both Medicare and Medicaid.

The settlement announced today resolves allegations that Dr. Joel Aronowitz; Daniel Aronowitz; Joel A. Aronowitz, M.D., a medical corporation; Tower Multi-Specialty Medical Group; Tower Wound

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United States of America v. Matthew Taylor Witkowski

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud.

Matthew Taylor Witkowski engaged in a conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud by fraudulently trafficking in orders for durable medical equipment such as back, knee an elbow braces.

From at least August 2019 through the date of his arrest in July 2022, WITKOWSKI and his co-defendan

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