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Sleep clinic owner sentenced to 27 months
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A Las Vegas sleep clinic owner who and falsified medical records in a scheme to defraud Medicare was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Tuesday.
Dennis Allen Falls, 59, pleaded guilty in September to two counts of health care fraud related to bilking the federal health insurer out of about $230,000.
Falls was the owner and operator of Nevada Pulmonary and Sleep Disorders, Inc., in Las Vegas.
According to U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden, Falls repeatedly submitted false claims to Medicare for complicated and expensive diagnostic tests, such as sleep studies and pulmonary stress tests that were not provided to the patient or ordered by a doctor" or more than four years beginning in 2003.
The bogus claims made it appear as if a physician had ordered the tests, Bogden said.
Falls will be on supervised release for three years once he completes his prison term.
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In addition to being a crook, the guy must be stupid. Every time a claim is submitted to Medicare, the patient gets an explanation of benefits document, an EOB. It lists all the procedures. Did he think that people over 65 are too addled to call the suspected fraud hotline number on the bottom of the document?
Who are these people who deliberately cheat the taxpayers and see absolutely nothing wrong with doing so? I hope he did a better job of raising his kids than his parents did raising him.
The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
Like Candystriper says, they are mining the data and fraud has gotten a lot easier to detect.
A better sentence was just to put this scam artist to "sleep"....!
Metro's fault again. DOJ, FBI, ACLU. Please investigate. The horror. The injustice. This is completely unjustified.
mining the data since Clinton was President...look out