Medicare Fraud $13 Million Restitution Award Sunk by Evidence

The four-year sentence and $13 million restitution payment the office manager at a home health care provider was ordered to pay for his alleged role in Medicare fraud were vacated by the Fifth Circuit because the government didn’t show he had specific knowledge of the fraud.

Jonathan Nora made $60,000 a year as office manager for Abide Home Health Care Services Inc. After the government charged 23 people for Medicare fraud, the owner of Abide worked out a plea deal and testified against Nora and his co-defendants.

A jury found Nora and the others guilty and the verdicts against his ...