Jury Finds Brother, Sister Guilty In $7.8M Health Care Fraud Scheme

(July 18, 2019, 10:35 AM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal jury in Alabama on July 16 unanimously found that a doctor and nurse were guilty of submitting $7.8 million in bills for Medicare and private insurance companies for prescriptions for opioids and allergy immunotherapy treatments that were medically unnecessary (United States v. Patrick Emeka Ifediba, et al., No. 18-cr-0103-RDP-JEO, N.D. Ala.)....