Here are eight healthcare fraud cases Becker's has reported on since July 20:
- A Virginia pain clinic owner will pay $4 million in restitution for billing Medicare and Medicaid for controlled substances that were not medically necessary.
- A physician who owns multiple urgent care centers in the St. Louis area and one of his office managers are facing federal healthcare fraud charges.
- A New Jersey woman accused of posing as a physician and prescribing "dangerous" medications was arrested and charged July 25.
- Another individual was sentenced in connection with an ongoing investigation into a pharmaceutical prescription scheme centered around Wholesale Supply.
- David Santana, owner of Conclave Media and Nationwide Health Advocates, was charged in a $44 million telemedicine scheme.
- An Illinois physician agreed to pay $750,000 to settle allegations he submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
- A Fort Worth, Texas-based physician's assistant was charged with 11 counts of healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.
- Johanah Napoleon, former president and owner of the Palm Beach School of Nursing in Florida, must serve 21 months in prison and must also pay $3.5 million as part of her sentencing for the role she played in a fraudulent nursing degree scheme.