Florida Man Arrested For Role In Multimillion-Dollar Medicare Scheme Based On Fraudulent Billing For Durable Medical Equipment

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the arrest of ALAN SWISS on charges of health care fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. SWISS is the third defendant charged, following the arrests in December of co-defendants ERIN FOLEY and TED ALBIN. As alleged in a four-count Indictment unsealed today, SWISS ran two medical supply companies that illegally submitted more than $17 million in claims to Medicare, submitting those claims through a Medicare billing company run by FOLEY and ALBIN. FOLEY and ALBIN are charged with using that billing company to bill Medicare for more than $25 million in fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment (“DME”), on which Medicare and related private insurers paid out more than $9 million.

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