An owner of medical equipment companies was arrested in connection with an alleged kickback and money laundering conspiracy and has been charged in an indictment filed in US District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Alexandra Stchastlivtseva allegedly caused Medicare to pay more than $17.3 million based on false claims by paying kickbacks and bribes to telemedicine and marketing companies for completed doctors’ orders of medically unnecessary orthotic braces and continuous glucose monitors for Medicare beneficiaries, according to the department.
She is charged with conspiracy to defraud the US and to offer and pay ...
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