Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Conspiracy to Pay and Receive Health Care Kickbacks. Clients operated a telemarketing company recruiting Medicare beneficiaries for medically unnecessary genetic tests, paid bribes to a telemedicine company for fraudulent doctor orders, and clinical labs paid kickbacks back into the scheme.
The defendants operated a multi-million-dollar Medicare fraud scheme through a telemarketing operation that targeted beneficiaries and paid bribes to telemedicine companies in exchange for fraudulent orders. Multiple defendants faced serious health care fraud and kickback conspiracy charges in a coordinated scheme involving genetic testing billing abuse.
Counsel separated each client's individual culpability from the broader scheme. The strategy focused on the specific loss amount attributable to each defendant rather than aggregate scheme losses, identified applicable mitigating circumstances, and leveraged cooperation credit to reduce exposure. This allowed each defendant to be sentenced on their individual role rather than the entire conspiracy.
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