Nurse Practitioner’s Fraud, Kickback Convictions Hold on Appeal

A nurse practitioner in Georgia lost her appeal to undo convictions for fraud, false statements, kickback conspiracy, and aggravated identity theft Tuesday, when the Eleventh Circuit found sufficient evidence she knowingly signed bogus orders for durable medical equipment.

Sherley Beaufils signed attestations that the information contained in her patient records was accurate and that she personally performed patient assessments. None of that was true. She also routinely signed multiple orders in impossibly short time clusters, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said. And the DME orders were substantively problematic.

“The orders themselves contained inconsistent and inaccurate information, ...