11th Circuit Affirms Woman’s 121-Month Prison Sentence For Medicare Fraud

Mealey's (April 22, 2021, 12:48 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 21 affirmed a federal judge’s decision to sentence the owner of a durable medical equipment company to 121 months in prison after she was found guilty of health care fraud for submitting altered and falsified documents to Medicare, overruling the woman’s arguments that the judge erred during the trial and when finding that the scheme involved sophisticated means....