tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 35

Rehab: DOCTOR'S WORK IS DOCTOR'S WORK

PT clinic operators indicted for lying about physician evals.  Two Texas physical therapy clinic operators are in hot water for allegedly fudging physician evaluations. According to U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby, Monet Selders and Tamara Fitzgerald, operators of Infinity and Medical Management Services PT clinics, have been indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to commit health care fraud. Prosecutors say more than $2.6 million in 1999 claims submitted by the clinic were fraudulent. In particular, the indictment maintains that Selders and Fitzgerald hired a foreign medical student - who was not a licensed doctor - to...

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