The owner of a durable medical equipment company in Weslaco, Texas, has been convicted of three counts of healthcare fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Prosecutors said Juan De Leon used his company, United DME, to direct the submission of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid. Some of the supplies Mr. De Leon’s clinic billed for where never delivered and some of the claims were for power wheelchairs delivered after patients had died, according to the release.
According to the evidence at trial, Mr. De Leon attempted to conceal the scheme by altering records contained within patient files including backdating delivery dates and forging patient signatures on delivery tickets. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison and his sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 8.
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