Year in Federal Prison for Billing Medicare for Non-Existent Treatment
Justice outside the Albert V. Bryan District Courthouse in Alexandria, VA. (Photo: Tim Evanson - Flickr - CC license)
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The former owner of a Chicago home health care company has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $1.2 million from Medicare through a phony billing scheme.
HENRY SMILIE was the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Home Physician Services LLC, which arranged in-home health care services for patients who were purportedly elderly and homebound. From 2012 to . . .