United States of America v. Ted Albin

Date: 06-24-2025

Case Number: 1:23-cr-00664

Judge: John G. Koeltl

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (New York County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney's Office in New York City

Defendant's Attorney: Joshua Lax

Description: New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Medicare fraud.

From approximately 2016 through April 2021, Ted Albin operated Grapevine Professional Services (“Grapevine”), a medical billing company, which he used to submit fraudulent reimbursement claims for durable medical equipment (“DME”), including back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, and shoulder braces. ALBIN submitted thousands of fraudulent claims on behalf of DME supply companies that had engaged Grapevine for its billing services, including at least three DME supply companies owned and controlled by ALBIN and his sister, Erin Foley—Liberty Bell Medical, Skye Medical, and Priority Medical. ALBIN’s fraudulent claims were based on prescriptions for DME which he knew had been illegally bought with kickbacks paid by the DME supply companies. At least some of the kickback-tainted prescriptions billed by ALBIN were generated with forged doctor’s signatures and without regard to the medical need of the patients for whom braces had been prescribed. ALBIN knew of the fraudulent nature of the claims he submitted to Medicare and nonetheless continued to submit such claims, over and over, for years. In total, the DME companies that ALBIN submitted claims for billed Medicare for over $38 million, on which Medicare paid out over $12 million.

Outcome: The Defendant was found guilty after a twelve day jury trial.

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