Louisiana Doctors’ Medicare Fraud Convictions Upheld on Appeal

Four doctors and an administrative employee who worked for a Louisiana home health agency on Wednesday lost their Fifth Circuit appeal seeking to overturn their convictions in connection with a $13.6 million Medicare fraud scheme.

The government presented sufficient evidence that the doctors convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges knowingly executed a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare for medically unnecessary home health services on behalf of patients who weren’t homebound, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled.

The government supported its case with testimony from other Abide Home Care Services Inc. employees, testimony from a qualified expert ...