Mr. Sadiqr was also ordered to pay $508,134 in restitution. He pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.
According to court documents, Mr. Sadiqr owned and operated Cooper Medical Supply. Between Jan. 2006 and Sept. 2009, he conspired with Leonard Nwafor, the owner of another DME supply company, and Maria Nela Moreno, a patient recruiter, and others to purchase fraudulent prescriptions and medical documents. Mr. Sadiqr then used those documents to submit false claims to Medicare for expensive, high-end power wheelchairs and other DME he claimed he supplied to Medicare beneficiaries. He admitted that he knew Cooper Medical Supply’s beneficiaries did not need the power wheelchairs and other DME he billed to Medicare and that he knew the doctor and beneficiary information contained in the fraudulent prescriptions and medical documents came from fraudulent medical clinics and patient recruiters like Ms. Moreno. Mr. Sadiqr admitted that he used Cooper Medical Supply to submit or cause the submission of approximately $950,000 in false claims to Medicare as a result of this scheme.
Mr. Sadiqr’s co-conspirators, Mr. Nwafor and Ms. Moreno, were convicted in Sept. 2008 and Feb.2010, respectively, of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare fraud. Mr. Nwafor was sentenced in March 2010 to nine years in prison. Ms. Moreno’s sentencing is scheduled for May 24.
Read the DOJ release on Cooper Medical Supply.
