HOUSTON, Texas—Twenty-two cases were announced in Texas as part of local efforts targeting health care fraud. The cases include alleged hospice fraud, kickbacks, Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) and more.
BOSTON, Massachusetts—The owner of Pharmagears, LLC (Pharmagears) and RR Medco, LLC (RR Medco) has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a nearly $30 million health care fraud conspiracy involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME), including orthotics such as back and knee braces.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—Three people have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a multi-million-dollar Medicare billing scheme.
MIAMI—A foreign national was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $3.2 million through a sham durable medical equipment (DME) company.
NEWARK, New Jersey—Two operators of a New Jersey marketing company were sentenced to prison for their roles in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and receive illegal kickbacks.
NASHVILLE—Dr. John R. Manning, 64, of Ashland City, Tennessee, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his participation in a health care fraud conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Robert E. McGuire for the Middle District of Tennessee
ST. LOUIS—A medical doctor from the Kansas City, Kansas area admitted to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to order medically unnecessary health care for thousands of patients.
MIAMI—Manuel Delgado, 64, plead guilty to accepting cash bribes and self-dealing as part of a conspiracy to impede and obstruct the lawful functions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in their administration and oversight of the Medicare program.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–A Kentucky man was sentenced to over one year in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering in connection with his durable medical equipment (DME) businesses.
NEWARK, New Jersey—A Florida man was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a durable medical equipment (DME) kickback scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses to Medicare and other insurance providers.
WASHINGTON—A Kansas man pleaded guilty to operating an internet-based platform that generated false doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion.
WASHINGTON—A New York doctor was found guilty on Monday, Feb. 10 by a federal jury for causing the submission of more than $24 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and laboratory tests.
NEW ORLEANS—U.S. Attorney Duane Evans announced that Robert Lake, a resident of East Rockaway, New York, was arrested in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport after disembarking from an international flight. Lake was previously indicted for federal health care fraud on Oct. 18, 2025, for one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and three counts of health care fraud.
MISSOULA, Montana—A Whitefish, Montana, doctor was sentenced to six months in prison, six months of home confinement and one year of supervised released after admitting to defrauding Medicare and other federal government health programs through a telemedicine conspiracy, which resulted in more than $31 million in false billing. Additionally, the doctor has been fined $100,000 and ordered to pay more than $780,509 in restitution.
EL PASO, Texas—Edelmira Marquez, owner of durable medical equipment company Marquez Medical Supply in El Paso, Texas, was sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. In addition to her imprisonment, Marquez has been fined $20,000 and ordered to pay more than $1.7 million in restitution to Medicaid.
NEWARK, New Jersey—United States Attorney Vikas Khanna announced that two Florida men, a father and son duo, were arraigned on charges relating to their roles in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) and prescription drug health care fraud and kickback scheme.
WASHINGTON—A Texas doctor was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genetic testing without seeing, speaking to or otherwise treating patients.
WILMINGTON, Delaware—Dr. Vishal Patel, a Wilmington physician, has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act by ordering medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) for patients covered by Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), announced U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
TRENTON, New Jersey—A Florida man admitted his role in a durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger.
Christopher Vehovec of Miami Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty to information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton federal court.
NEWARK, New Jersey—A Connecticut man has admitted his role in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna.
WASHINGTON—Thomas Andrew Webster, M.D., age 51, of Sylvania, Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept kickbacks in connection with a fraudulent telemarketing and medical supply scheme throughout Washington and in other states, announced Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. United States District Judge Mary K.
CHICAGO, Illinois—The office manager for a suburban Chicago medical equipment boutique has been indicted on federal health care fraud charges for allegedly billing private insurers for products that were never provided, including breast prostheses, compression garments and wigs for cancer survivors.
