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Related: About this forumJury convicts Austin doctor of $2.1 million in Medicare fraud
After a seven-day trial, a Houston jury convicted Dr. Dennis B. Barson Jr., 44, of Austin, and his clinic administrator, Dario Juarez, 54, of Beeville, of conspiracy and health care fraud after they billed Medicare $2.1 million over a two-month period, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced Wednesday evening.
Co-defendant Edgar Shakbazyan, whose address and age were not provided, pleaded guilty Oct. 24 and was convicted of conspiracy to pay kickbacks, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Texas.
Prosecutors said the fraudulent billing was for tests for urinary, bowel and sexual dysfunction that were never performed. The Houston FBI and the Texas Attorney Generals Office were among the agencies that worked on the case.
Barson and Juarez were convicted of 19 counts of health care fraud for filing false claims with Medicare for the procedures. The counts involved billings for 429 patients in just two months, the U.S. Attorneys Office said. In a single day, on July 13, 2009, they billed for 156 patients, prosecutors said.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/jury-convicts-austin-doctor-of-21-million-in-medic/nh2Kz/
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)saved us billions of dollars....he never gets credit for this...
http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/newsroom/index.html
scroll down to "Enforcement News" for just a taste.....
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)by using the corporation he was Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA? And yet instead of being behind bars, he got re-elected governor of Florida again. Americans have got to be stupid.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)steal a little and you get nailed. Steal a lot and you become governor