A New Orleans nurse was convicted in a $12.1M Medicare fraud scheme involving unnecessary cancer tests and a telehealth company, court records show.

Healthcare "Expert" Convicted of Ordering Sham Cancer Genetic Tests for Patients She Never Met A federal jury has convicted a Louisiana nurse practitioner in a shocking $12.1 million healthcare fraud scheme that preyed on vulnerable patients and defrauded Medicare.

The owner of a Broward pharmacy is charged with obtaining close to $10 million in fraudulent Medicare reimbursement claims for over-the-counter COVID tests that no one ordered, according to a

Florida man Lino Mallari Gutierrez receives over 17 years' prison time for his role in a $10.8 million Medicare fraud scheme and is ordered to pay $5.6 million in restitution.

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Dr. Ron Elfenbein was convicted in 2023 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore of five counts of health care fraud. Federal prosecutors alleged that Elfenbein, 51, billed Medicare too much for visits that only lasted a few minutes and submitted records detailing medical services that his clinic did not provide.

That might not sound too surprising given all of the other workforce cuts happening across the government, but these folks are on the front lines of preventing waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs,