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December 9, 2021 — A resident of Wexford, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service on his conviction of unlawfully distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

December 7, 2021 — A resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court following his convictions for conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, health care fraud, and conspiracy to distribute Schedule IV controlled substances, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Chad E. Meacham, issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2021:. Two doctors who helped a local hospice agency scam Medicare were sentenced today to a combined 23 years in prison for healthcare fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn...

November 1, 2021 — A former physician has been sentenced in federal court to one day of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, including 15 months home confinement and 300 hours community service, on his conviction of drug diversion, health care fraud and money laundering, associated with his suburban Pittsburgh holistic medical practice, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexander C. Van Hook, issued the following news release:. Marty T. Johnson, 59, of Shreveport, Louisiana and Keesha Dinkins, 45, of Bossier City, each appeared in United States District Court on October 25, 2021 and pleaded guilty to federal charges. According to information presented to the court,...

October 26, 2021 — A former Pittsburgh-area physician pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics and health care laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued the following news release on Oct. 22, 2021:. Attorney General Todd Rokita recently marked another successful case investigated and prosecuted by his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The conviction and sentencing of Betty Hanks, owner and operator of Liberty Labs Inc. in Perry County, followed an in-depth...

Southern District of New York. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced the unsealing today of an indictment charging acupuncturists JUNYI LIU, a/k/a "Jenny," and...

Farid A. Ahmad, M.D., of Oak Creek on Tuesday (May 18). A press release states that in September of 2018, he used a nurses National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI), which is a 10-digit identification number given to health providers. He used the nurses NPI to prescribe medication to his Medicaid patients. He gave out nearly 300 pharmaceuticals to patients, including eight controlled substance prescriptions. The nurse told investigators that they consented to Ahmad using their NPI one time t...

PITTSBURGH — A resident of Bulger, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation and the forfeiture of $1.75 million on his conviction of maintaining a drug involved premises and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today. United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on Stephen K. Shaner. According to information presented to the court, Shaner was the owner and operator of SKS Associates, Inc., a buprenorp...