Justices Reject Doctors’ Plea to Review Health Fraud Convictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to give three Louisiana physicians another chance to fight their health-care fraud convictions.

The appeals came from doctors Shelton Barnes, Gregory Molden, and Henry Evans, who were found guilty in 2017 of fraudulently referring Medicare patients to the home health agency they worked for and diagnosing patients with unsupported conditions to inflate Medicare reimbursements.

The physicians worked at the time as home doctors for Abide Home Care Services, which the federal government said was paying them illegal kickbacks to refer Medicare patients to the company for services that weren’t medically necessary.

Each physician ...