PT sentenced to prison for submitting false claims
Rehab Regs, June 16, 2005
A former Houston-area physical therapy clinic operator has been sentenced to seven years in a federal prison for defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid programs of $1.6 million, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Wesley Alford Boyd, along with co-defendant Clemis Laraine Jackson, was convicted in December 2003 of submitting false claims to both programs between April 1997 and September 1998. The claims submitted by the clinic billed for physicial therapy services that were not performed by qualified providers or under the supervision of a licensed physician. In addition to his prison term, Boyd has been ordered to pay $529,000 in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid, read the press release.
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