Mealey's (September 4, 2019, 1:18 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 30 affirmed a man’s 70-month prison sentence he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, holding that a federal judge in Texas properly applied sentencing enhancements based on the defendant’s use of a Medicare beneficiary’s identification number to produce a Medicare claim number (United States v. Elekwachi Kalu, No. 18-20399, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26466)....