Woman pleads guilty to impersonating an OIG 'compliance officer'
Compliance Monitor, December 1, 2004
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A woman admitted she pretended to be an HHS employee in Ohio, trained healthcare providers and then provided them with a bogus certification, extorting more than $17,000.
Carla E. Davison pled guilty in November in Columbus' U.S. district court, where she said she pretended to be an "OIG compliance officer" from May 2000 until January 2004 and that she gave providers a bogus certification indicating their compliance with federal healthcare practice guidelines.
She trained to healthcare providers and their staffs for a fee, according to a release from the U.S. attorney's office in Columbus.
In return, attendees would receive certification that they were "practice compliance officers"-although the U.S. attorney's office says no such government-sanctioned (or government-authorized) designation or qualification exists.
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