NC Ambulance Company Owner Pleads Guilty to $6.1 Million Fraud

The owner and an employee of a North Carolina ambulance company have pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing Medicare and an insurer for $6.1 million.

Davon Henderson, who ran Greenville, N.C.-based Med 1 Inter-facility Care LLC, and Pamela Babb, who submitted bills for the company, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health-care fraud and aggravated identity theft charges Oct. 25, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.

Prosecutors said the two used the identities of Humana Inc. beneficiaries to fraudulently bill the insurer’s Medicare Advantage plan. The fraudulent charges included “back billing” for ambulance services when the ...