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Description: Kansas City, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud.
Dr. Frederick Scott Dattle, age 57, from Leawood, Kansas participated in a nationwide scheme to defraud Medicare.
“A physician abused his position of trust to cause fraudulent claims to be filed for more than 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries,” said U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore. “This theft of public funds was part of a larger nationwide scheme that includes prosecutions in other districts where additional perpetrators are being held accountable for their criminal actions.”
According to court documents, between August 2017 and February 2018, Dattel worked as a physician for RediDoc, L.L.C., a commercial telemedicine company. RediDoc’s owners were alleged to have unlawfully profited by paying kickbacks and bribes to doctors so that they would sign high volumes of expensive prescriptions and durable medical equipment orders that were not medically necessary.
By pleading guilty, Dattel admitted that while working for RediDoc he unlawfully caused false and fraudulent Medicare claims. Court documents allege that Dattel reviewed 1,077 patient files from August 2017 to February 2018 and issued orders or prescriptions for 1,075 beneficiaries for durable medical equipment, orthotics and/or compounds.
The Leawood man is alleged to have issued the orders and prescriptions without seeing, speaking to, or otherwise communicating or examining the beneficiaries, and without regard for whether the equipment or compounds were needed. The documents allege that almost the entirety of Dattel’s completed, signed prescriptions and orders were not legitimately prescribed, not needed and not used.
Outcome: Defendant pled guilty. Dattel must pay restitution in the full amount of $211,542. He is subject to up to five years in federal prison without parole.
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