Case Details
Baltaian, a 61-year-old physician from Porter Ranch, falsely certified patients for home health care between January 2012 and July 2018
Her fraudulent actions involved:
· Pre-signing blank, undated physician certification forms
· Allowing home health agencies to falsify these forms
· Receiving cash benefits for these improper referrals
· Submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare
Legal Consequences
· Maximum potential prison sentence of 10 years
· Scheduled sentencing on April 3, 2025
· Case officially recorded as United States v. Baltaian, No. 3:24-cr-08224 (N.D. Cal. 2024).
Physician Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud
By Samuel A. Lopez – USA Herald
[LOS ANGELES, California] at 10:17 AM PST – As a native of The Golden State, this story hits close to home, folks. A California physician pleads guilty in a scheme that defrauded Medicare out of $1,449,050.
According to court documents, Dr. Lilit Baltaian, a licensed physician in California, cooked up a scheme involving false home health care certifications. Here’s how it worked:
