- Home
- » e-Newsletters
Philadelphia clinic owner convicted of Medicare fraud
Compliance Monitor, June 20, 2012
A federal jury in Philadelphia convicted Jo Benoit, 77, of King of Prussia, Pa., of 76 counts of healthcare fraud, aggravated identity theft, distribution of controlled substances, and distribution of controlled substances to minors. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced the conviction June 12.
Benoit founded Transition Phase III in 2008 and advertised it as a trauma-specific mental health clinic, for victims of trauma, children, and members of the military and their families. Benoit inaccurately portrayed herself as a psychiatrist. She forged prescriptions on actual psychiatrists’ used prescription pads to medicate patients she claimed to be treating.
Benoit also used the name of an actual psychiatrist to bill insurance companies for more than $500,000, as if the patients were seeing a psychiatrist.
Benoit faces in excess of 100 months in prison, a mandatory minimum sentence of three years, a fine of up to $48 million, mandatory restitution, and three years of supervised release.
Related Products
-
2013 Facility ED Coding Checkup: Visit Levels, Modifiers, and Observation
-
2013 Outpatient Wound Care Coding
Join HCPro for a 90-minute webcast with step-by-step strategies and tips to reduce denials along with advice to improve...
-
Charging for Ancillary Bedside Procedures and Supplies in 2013
Our experts explain what CMS actually says about charging for services in addition to the room rate and provide strategies...
-
3-Day Payment Window:
Ease the burden of the CMS updates. Let our experts interpret and guide you through the new guidance in this live 90-minute...
-
2014 OPPS Proposed Rule: Prepare for Sweeping Changes
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- E-mailed
-
- Capturing start and stop times for infusions
- Q&A: Sepsis as a primary diagnosis
- Note from the instructor: Billing Outpatient Laboratory Services - TOB 131 vs. TOB 141
- Learn how to read an OP report
- Inpatient-only procedures: Accuracy helps avoid denials, ensure compliance
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- Clinical Corner: Revisiting respiratory failure
- Clear up confusion surrounding observation services
- Searched
