Health Care Fraud: Texas Hospice CEO Gets 15 Years Jail Time; Florida Businesswoman Faces 13 Years Prison Sentence

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On the other hand, FBO San Antonio Field Office Special Agent in Charge Miranda Bennett said, “McInnis and his co-conspirator’s reprehensible and deceitful actions to defraud Medicare weren’t without harm:  vulnerable beneficiaries were unnecessarily enrolled in hospice care, preventing them from accessing needed curative care.”

Florida businesswoman Kelly Wolfe pleads guilty, agrees to pay $20.3 million

Meanwhile, Kelly Wolfe, a businesswoman in Largo, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and filing a false tax return. She is facing a maximum penalty of 13 years in federal prison.

Wolfe is the owner and operator of Regency Inc., durable medical equipment (DME) billing and consulting company.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Wolfe and her co-conspirator used Regency to create dozens of DME supply companies as fronts. They placed the DME fronts in the names of straw owners.

By concealing their true ownership, Wolfe and her co-conspirators collectively submitted more than $400 million in illegal DME claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Veterans Affairs (VA).