Florida Siblings Charged 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, and Naomi Gruchacz, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), announced today the arrests of ERIN FOLEY and TED ALBIN on charges of health care fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. As alleged in a four-count Indictment unsealed today in federal court, FOLEY and ALBIN ran a Medicare billing company that they used to bill Medicare for more than $25 million in fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment (“DME”), and on which Medicare and related private insurers paid out more than $9 million. FOLEY and ALBIN are also charged with illegally buying such DME orders for use in their own DME supply companies and with introducing buyers to sellers in return for additional kickbacks.

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