Medicare Fraudster Wins Closer Look at Hybrid Restitution Debt

A woman convicted in 2014 for her role in a $16.2 million Medicare fraud won, in part, a Third Circuit appeal challenging her outstanding restitution obligation.

The appeals court said it couldn’t tell if Natalya Shvets’s approximately $253,000 restitution obligation had been satisfied, so it remanded the case to the district court which can evaluate the method its clerk used to calculate her outstanding balance in the first instance.

Addressing hybrid restitution orders for the first time, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit joined five other courts of appeals in deeming them permissible.

The Mandatory Victim Restitution ...