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MEDICAL SUPPLY EXECUTIVE IMPRISONED FOR DEFRAUDING MEDICARE

By Robert David, Esq.

On August 4, 2008, U.S. Attorney for the District of Northern Georgia David Nahmias announced that Angela D. Isley, , 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. to serve more than 5 years in prison on charges of health care fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. According to United States Attorney Nahmias and the information presented in court: Between January 2001 and December 2003, ISLEY knowingly assigned incorrect ?product codes? to certain wrist braces and walking boots in Orthoscript Incorporated?s inventory in order to generate higher reimbursements from Medicare. ISLEY instructed company employees, often over their objections, to file claims with Medicare listing fraudulent product codes which are to be specifically used for custom-fabricated wrist braces, when all Orthoscript actually supplied were cheaper, prefabricated, off-the-shelf items...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).