Thursday, September 1, 2011

Podiatrist gets 5 months, $25,000 fine - Nashville Business Journal:

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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practice at the in Maryland as well as assorted assisted livingv facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louis County, in Aprik to one felony count of obstruction of afederapl audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civip settlement agreement with the United States requiringb her to pay the Medicareprogramj $425,000. Stafford billed Medicare for numerous compledx foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicarre beneficiaries when she was really providing these patients with only routine foot such as toe nail prosecutors said.
When she was auditede by the Medicare programin 2007, Medicare deniecd her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requestec that she repay $6,840 for non-coveresd services that had been previously paid to her. Stafforcd challenged this and as part of her effortx to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford created new treatmenr records for those 39 patients in 2007, back-dating them to using fraudulent treatment informatiobn and claiming that she had provided these patients with podiatriv surgical procedure, prosecutors said.

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