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Twenty People Indicted in Florida for Health Care Fraud Scheme Involving Approximately $200 Million in Medicare Billing

WASHINGTON – Twenty individuals, including three doctors, were charged today in the Southern District of Florida for various health care fraud, kickback and money laundering charges related to their alleged participation in a fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in Medicare billing for purported mental health services, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).

The 38-count indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida alleges that the defendants worked with and for American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC) and Medlink Professional Management Group Inc. According to court documents, the defendants participated in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting false claims for mental health services administered at ATC facilities that were medically unnecessary or not provided at all. The indictment alleges that various defendants paid kickbacks to patient brokers and owners and operators of halfway houses and assisted living facilities (ALFs), in exchange for delivering patients to ATC facilities. Various defendants are charged with participating in an extensive and complicated money laundering scheme related to the cash for kickback payments. Sixteen defendants were arrested this morning in the Southern District of Florida and are expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Miami later today. Arrests are expected to continue in the coming days.

ATC’s and Medlink’s owners and managers, Lawrence S. Duran, Marianella Valera, Judith Negron and Margarita Acevedo, were originally indicted along with the corporate entities, ATC and Medlink, in October 2010. A superseding 38-count indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of Florida charges them with additional offenses.

“As today’s charges reflect, defrauding the Medicare system was not an aberration at ATC, but instead part and parcel of its business operations,” said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.“The alleged scheme was brazen in scope, and carried out by the company’s owners, doctors, marketers and others. By exploiting positions of trust, these defendants masked their fraudulent operation as a legitimate mental health business. These charges are evidence that we will pursue Medicare cheats no matter their position.”

“Community mental health centers are an essential element of the nation’s health care system and serve vulnerable populations,” said Daniel R. Levinson, HHS Inspector General.“Today’s arrests by OIG agents and our law enforcement partners show that we will not tolerate criminals who pay kickbacks for referrals of Medicare business or who bill for services that were either medically unnecessary or never provided.”

“Community Mental Health Centers can no longer use phantom medical care as a front to bilk Medicare for unnecessary or nonexistent medical services,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge John V. Gillies of the Miami Field Office.“The FBI and our law enforcement partners will investigate and criminally prosecute such fraud to the fullest extent of the law.”

U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida stated,“Health care fraud has evolved from DME fraud, to infusion fraud, to home health care fraud, and now, as this case shows, to community mental health treatment fraud. Worse yet, health care fraud has come to permeate every level of the health care industry, from the owners and managers of dirty clinics, to complicit doctors, program directors, therapists, marketers, and patient recruiters.

Today’s prosecution confirms that we are well-equipped and primed to fight the changing face of Medicare fraud in the Southern District of Florida, and that we will prosecute every link in the fraud chain.”
According to court documents, ATC, headquartered in Miami, operated purported partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) in seven different locations throughout Florida, from Homestead to Orlando. A PHP is a form of intensive treatment for mental illness. Court documents allege that Duran and Valera orchestrated the fraud, kickback and money laundering schemes. Negron assisted Duran and Valera in operating the schemes. Acevedo operated the kickback scheme.

According to court documents, doctors Mark Willner, Alan Gumer and Alberta Ayala were medical directors for ATC, and Vanja Abreu (Ph.D.), Nancy Merced-Sola and Lydia Ward (Ph.D.) served as program directors who managed ATC facilities. Nichole Eckert was a therapist at ATC. Court documents allege that Duran, Negron and Valera, along with the program directors and Eckert, regularly altered and instructed others to alter patient charts and notes from therapy sessions at ATC in order to make it appear that the patients being treated qualified for PHP treatments, when, in fact, they did not. According to the indictment, Willner, Gumer and Ayala then signed the false patient charts authorizing unnecessary treatment or continued treatment for patients who were not eligible for PHP treatment, without examining the patients or the charts. Duran and Valera also allegedly instructed employees and doctors at ATC, including Willner, Gumer and Ayala, to alter diagnoses and medication types and levels to falsely make it appear that the patients qualified for PHP treatments.

According to court documents, Valera, Willner, Gumer and Ayala manipulated the length of patients’ stays in order to maximize the number of days Medicare would pay for the PHP services. According to a civil complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida, ATC routinely admitted patients to the PHP program who suffered from Alzheimer’s and severe dementia and therefore were not eligible for the PHP program because their mental capacity did not allow them to benefit from group therapy.

The indictment also alleges that Sandra Jimenez, Hilario Morris and Joseph Valdes were marketers for ATC and participated in the kickback operation. These marketers, along with Duran, Valera, Negron and Acevedo, allegedly paid kickbacks to patient brokers and owners and operators of ALFs and halfway houses in exchange for delivering patients from their facilities to ATC. The indictment alleges that defendants Mathis Moore, Nelson Fernandez, Leyanes Placeres, James Edwards, Frank Criado and Curtis Gates were patient brokers and, in exchange for kickbacks, provided patients to ATC every month from ALFs and halfway houses with which they had relationships. The indictment alleges that the kickback payments totaled millions of dollars.

The indictments allege that the kickback scheme was supported by a money laundering scheme whereby individuals received checks in their own names or in the names of shell corporations they created, cashed the checks and returned the cash to Duran and Valera, which Duran and Valera then used to pay the kickbacks. Defendants Adriana Mejia, Pedro Sosa, Yoisel Cancio and an unnamed coconspirator, along with Moore, Fernandez, Placeres, Edwards, Criado and Gates, allegedly participated with Duran, Valera, Negron and Acevedo in the charged money laundering conspiracy. According to the indictment, Mejia, Sosa and Cancio received monthly, bi-weekly and weekly payments from Medlink despite the fact that they had no job functions at Medlink or ATC, other than laundering money.

The indictments also charge that Duran, Valera, Negron, Mejia, Sosa and Cancio engaged in transactions designed to conceal proceeds of unlawful activity and structured their transactions to avoid reporting requirements that require banks to report certain transactions. According to the indictments, these defendants together laundered millions of dollars over several years.

The alleged scheme also involved a company called American Sleep Institute (ASI), which purportedly provided sleep study services. The defendants paid additional kickbacks for some patients to also visit ASI. Court documents allege that Willner, Gumer and Ayala furthered the health care fraud conspiracy by referring patients to ASI.

In a separate action in October 2010, a civil complaint for injunctive relief was filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida and a preliminary injunction was obtained to freeze the assets of Duran, Valera, Negron, Acevedo, ATC and Medlink as well as ASI and D&V Development Inc., as participants in the health care fraud. Civil court documents allege that D&V Development was owned and operated by Valera and Duran and was established in an effort to divert funds received by ATC and ASI.

An indictment is merely a charge and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Today’s actions were announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge John V. Gillies of the FBI’s Miami Field Office; and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of HHS.

The criminal cases are being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Jennifer L. Saulino, Maria Gonzalez Calvet and Joseph S. Beemsterboer of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. The related civil action is being prosecuted by Vanessa I. Reed and Carolyn B. Tapie of the Civil Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted L. Radway of the Southern District of Florida. The cases are being investigated by the FBI and HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). The cases were brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Since their inception in March 2007, Strike Force operations in seven districts have obtained indictments of more than 850 individuals who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for approximately $2.1 billion. In addition, HHS’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.

GOOD NEWS!!! I have located 2 empty lots in Glendale!!! Armenians have new places to dump things!!! Instead of taking your trash out to the dumpster in the alley behind your apartment, you can load it into the car and take it there. They are at Fairmont and Concord and also Kenilworth and Milford. One of them has a sign that says No Dumping but when has that ever stopped an Armenian? If they stop you you can tell the truth which is that you can't read!!!

GOOD NEWS wrote:

GOOD NEWS!!! I have located 2 empty lots in Glendale!!! Armenians have new places to dump things!!! Instead of taking your trash out to the dumpster in the alley behind your apartment, you can load it into the car and take it there. They are at Fairmont and Concord and also Kenilworth and Milford. One of them has a sign that says No Dumping but when has that ever stopped an Armenian? If they stop you you can tell the truth which is that you can't read!!!

You can go open a KKK shack there and talk with your fellow Americans about how: Mexicans are taking our jobs because we are to lazy, how the Armenians are doing this, how the Koreans are doing that.
Typical American ignorance and racism.

guest wrote:

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You can go open a KKK shack there and talk with your fellow Americans about how: Mexicans are taking our jobs because we are to lazy, how the Armenians are doing this, how the Koreans are doing that.
Typical American ignorance and racism.

GOOD NEWS!!! I have located 2 empty lots in Glendale!!! Armenians have new places to dump things!!! Instead of taking your trash out to the dumpster in the alley behind your apartment, you can load it into the car and take it there. They are at Fairmont and Concord and also Kenilworth and Milford. One of them has a sign that says No Dumping but when has that ever stopped an Armenian? If they stop you you can tell the truth which is that you can't read!!!

GOOD NEWS wrote:

GOOD NEWS!!! I have located 2 empty lots in Glendale!!! Armenians have new places to dump things!!! Instead of taking your trash out to the dumpster in the alley behind your apartment, you can load it into the car and take it there. They are at Fairmont and Concord and also Kenilworth and Milford. One of them has a sign that says No Dumping but when has that ever stopped an Armenian? If they stop you you can tell the truth which is that you can't read!!!

GOOOD NEWS!!!!

Those dumps can now be a place for whites and mexicans to forage and scavenge for food and scrap!!!

Remember to bring your children to play in the trash, because you know they can use some good ole training to know their cultural roots!! You can even bring ole Grandma and Grandpa and your inbred relatives to the dump; they'll feel like they're taking a trip back to memory lane.

Finally, you folks found a place to call your home again!

GOOD NEWS wrote:

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GOOD NEWS!!! I have located 2 empty lots in Glendale!!! Armenians have new places to dump things!!! Instead of taking your trash out to the dumpster in the alley behind your apartment, you can load it into the car and take it there. They are at Fairmont and Concord and also Kenilworth and Milford. One of them has a sign that says No Dumping but when has that ever stopped an Armenian? If they stop you you can tell the truth which is that you can't read!!!

GOOOD NEWS!!!!

Those dumps can now be a place for whites and mexicans to forage and scavenge for food and scrap!!!

Remember to bring your children to play in the trash, because you know they can use some good ole training to know their cultural roots!! You can even bring ole Grandma and Grandpa and your inbred relatives to the dump; they'll feel like they're taking a trip back to memory lane.

Finally, you folks found a place to call your home again!

ARMENIAN CRIMES?! What about Turkish crimes? Now THOSE are worth mentioning.

Dashnak wrote:

ARMENIAN CRIMES?! What about Turkish crimes? Now THOSE are worth mentioning.

hahahahahahah!!!!

why do you feel so bad that armos are the epitome fraud crimes
in the los angeles area? you try to attack another race to make yourself feel better. if u hate it so much then why don't you tell your fucking people to stop doing this shit. armos rarely stand up for the guilt and crimes that their people do.
pathetic!

polly sigh one oh one wrote:

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hahahahahahah!!!!
why do you feel so bad that armos are the epitome fraud crimes
in the los angeles area? you try to attack another race to make yourself feel better. if u hate it so much then why don't you tell your fucking people to stop doing this shit. armos rarely stand up for the guilt and crimes that their people do.
pathetic!

Look whos talking. You guys ignore what your own people do and blame minorities. Look at Bernie Madoff if you want to talk about fraud. You will probably talk about the healthcare fraud committed by Armenians but ofcourse you ignore the healthcare fraud committed by Americans at the same time as the Armenian one. The Armenian one was for 100 million, the American one was for 200 million. Your people are worse when it comes to fraud so dont talk down on Armenians when your own people are worse.

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Look whos talking. You guys ignore what your own people do and blame minorities. Look at Bernie Madoff if you want to talk about fraud. You will probably talk about the healthcare fraud committed by Armenians but ofcourse you ignore the healthcare fraud committed by Americans at the same time as the Armenian one. The Armenian one was for 100 million, the American one was for 200 million. Your people are worse when it comes to fraud so dont talk down on Armenians when your own people are worse.

ur an ignorant fool. ur generalizing all white americans as the same.
Bernie Modoff is a fucking jew. i'm not jewish whatsoever. if anything, those jews are probably closer related to you disgusting armo gypsies. it's easy to generalize you guys because there aren't that many of you and the fact that 80 percent of your people are full of shit. i respect jews more over you filthy armos because at least they're more educated and smarter.

polly sigh one oh one wrote:

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ur an ignorant fool. ur generalizing all white americans as the same.
Bernie Modoff is a fucking jew. i'm not jewish whatsoever. if anything, those jews are probably closer related to you disgusting armo gypsies. it's easy to generalize you guys because there aren't that many of you and the fact that 80 percent of your people are full of shit. i respect jews more over you filthy armos because at least they're more educated and smarter.

Im sorry, your probably a redneck then. I mean you generalize all Armenians the same so i can generalize all Americans the same. Why dont you go tell your daughter/sister/wife that you made fun of foreigners because of crimes that, your fellow Americans, have also committed, but at a larger level. So because hes Jewish than he is not an American then, yes i am the ignorant one here. What about the Americans from florida which you ignored? What about the 200 million they stole? oh let me guess, they are Catholic and since your not catholic then it doesnt matter, right?
God your pathetic. Go home to your redneck daughter/sister/wife.

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Im sorry, your probably a redneck then. I mean you generalize all Armenians the same so i can generalize all Americans the same. Why dont you go tell your daughter/sister/wife that you made fun of foreigners because of crimes that, your fellow Americans, have also committed, but at a larger level. So because hes Jewish than he is not an American then, yes i am the ignorant one here. What about the Americans from florida which you ignored? What about the 200 million they stole? oh let me guess, they are Catholic and since your not catholic then it doesnt matter, right?
God your pathetic. Go home to your redneck daughter/sister/wife.

it's ok. it's not my fault that armos love committing fraud or showing uncivilized trashy behavior. god will punish those people. i find it funny how armos are heavily christian yet many of them don't show christian like behavior.
btw im far from a redneck buddy!i have a masters in political science which is far from what you will ever achieve. generalizing you guys is justifiable since 80 percent of you guys show almost the same idiotic behavior, but it's ok, not all races are created
equal. you know anglos are superior to armos and all that anger shows by their trashy behavior. u can say im racist, but go ask any non armo around the glendale burbank area. they would agree that the majority of u guys are full of shit.

Dashnak wrote:

ARMENIAN CRIMES?! What about Turkish crimes? Now THOSE are worth mentioning.

Not in Glendale

Nearly 100 suspects tied to more than $450 million in phony Medicare billings in Houston and six other cities were arrested Wednesday morning in what is believed to be the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. history.

The arrests, made by investigators with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General and FBI agents included operators of four Houston private ambulance companies responsible for $7 million in phony trips to an outpatient psychiatric clinic.

"I would say this is the beginning," said Gary Cantrell, deputy inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "We have certainly seen a trend in ambulance fraud issues in that area (Houston) and other areas around the country."

Owners of two Houston home health care operations tied to $9 million in fraudulent Medicare claims, were also arrested.

Last October, a Houston Chronicle investigation revealed how Houston's Harris County leads the nation in the number of private ambulance companies, vehicles and total amount of dollars paid by Medicare for private ambulance service. The investigation also pointed to how many EMS companies transported able-bodied patients to clinics offering outpatient psychiatric care, also paid for by Medicare.

Nine people, including a doctor, were indicted Wednesday in Houston. Those charged included Gwendolyn Climmons-Johnson, owner of Urgent Response EMS of Houston; Olusola Elliott, owner, of Double Daniels EMS, of Houston; Grace and Thomas Anassi, operators of Touching Hearts EMS of Houston; Okechukwu Ofoegbu, owner of CardioMax, EMS and Dr. Nick Patzakis, Valdie Jackson and Jarvis Thomas, all associated with Jackson Home Healthcare Inc. of Houston. A nurse, Valnita Turner, who was listed as an operator of Houston Compassionate Care Inc., a home health care, was indicted along with Jarvis Thomas, an employee of an undisclosed hospital.

The four Houston ambulance companies all transported patients to Spectrum Care, a community mental health center that offered a "partial hospitalization program." PHPs are designed as an intense, daily alternative to an overnight hospital stay for the mentally ill. Last December, Spectrum Care's two owners were charged in a $90 million Medicare billing scheme, along with an assisted living home owner accused of taking kickbacks for sending her residents to the clinic.

There is no mention of Spectrum Care in the indictments but the Houston Chronicle confirmed with those familiar with the investigation that all four EMS companies transported to the clinic.

The ambulance owners charged on Wednesday were accused of submitting claims that prosecutors claim in the indictments were not covered because patients were transported to a CMHC, not a hospital or medical facility. CMHCs are a Medicare-created entity that does not require a license in Texas.

"Medicare did not cover ambulance transport from a beneficiary's home to a CMHC because a CMHC was not a hospital, skilled nursing facility or dialysis center," the indictments said.

Climmons-Johnson was charged one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and four counts of health care fraud for allegedly filing $2.3 million in phony transport claims via her Urgent Response ambulances "that were miscoded, not medically necessary and not provided." Of those claims filed, she received $949,833.30, according to the indictment. She surrendered to authorities this morning.

Elliott was charged with three counts of health care fraud for submitting $1.7 million in Medicare claims for transporting patients on Double Daniels EMS that were miscoded and not medically necessary. Elliott received $557.361.78.

The Anassis are accused of submitting $886,688 worth of ambulance claims to Medicare through their Touching Hearts EMS for which they received $317,602.49 in payment. They are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and four counts of health care fraud.

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Alleged Glendale carjacker pleads not guilty

A 38-year-old man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he carjacked a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint on Tuesday in Glendale, officials said.

Andre Khanyan faces two felony counts of second-degree robbery and carjacking for the incident on the 1700 block of West Glenoaks Boulevard, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court complaint. He also faces a special allegation of personal use of a weapon during the robbery.

He allegedly approached the girl as she sat in the passenger seat of a Nissan minivan at about 1:35 p.m., opened the door, pointed a knife and yelled “get out” several times, according to police reports.

The girl quickly exited the car and unstrapped her baby niece, who was inside the Nissan, before Khanyan took off. He led police on short pursuit on the Golden State (5) Freeway, where he was eventually stopped and arrested.

Khanyan, who is being held without bail, is on probation for forgery, witness intimidation and drug possession, police said.

He is scheduled to appear in court in Burbank on May 7 to set a date for a preliminary hearing.

Alleged Glendale carjacker pleads not guilty

A 38-year-old man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he carjacked a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint on Tuesday in Glendale, officials said.

Andre Khanyan faces two felony counts of second-degree robbery and carjacking for the incident on the 1700 block of West Glenoaks Boulevard, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court complaint. He also faces a special allegation of personal use of a weapon during the robbery.

He allegedly approached the girl as she sat in the passenger seat of a Nissan minivan at about 1:35 p.m., opened the door, pointed a knife and yelled “get out” several times, according to police reports.

The girl quickly exited the car and unstrapped her baby niece, who was inside the Nissan, before Khanyan took off. He led police on short pursuit on the Golden State (5) Freeway, where he was eventually stopped and arrested.

Khanyan, who is being held without bail, is on probation for forgery, witness intimidation and drug possession, police said.

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The "Armenians" who aren't proud of who they are, what they have to live up to and who don't celebrate and cherish their rich history, culture and tradition, are the TRUE criminals. These guys are just doing their jobs.

Man arrested after wedding brawl

By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com

June 12, 2012 | 4:11 p.m.
A man who allegedly tried to elbow two Glendale police officers during a massive brawl at a banquet hall this weekend could face battery and vandalism charges.

The man, Karpis Termendzyan, was arrested Saturday after police responded to a fight at a wedding celebration Saturday that broke out among more than 100 people. Police received calls from numerous witnesses at 11:52 p.m. about the brawl at Dream Palace banquet hall in the 500 block of East Broadway.

Termendzyan, 36, of Van Nuys, was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and battery after he allegedly spit on one officer and attempted to elbow two others, and later kicked in a rear window of a patrol car, said police Sgt. Tom Lorenz.

Another man, Spartak Karabedian, 22, also of Van Nuys, was detained for public drunkenness and released on Sunday, Lorenz added.

Witnesses also reported seeing several people wielding knives at the party, according to police reports.

Karabedian, who is on probation for assault with a deadly weapon, allegedly started the fight inside the banquet hall, according to police. But the details about the brawl remain unclear because partygoers have refused to talk to police about the incident, Lorenz said.

Attempts to reach the managers of the banquet hall were unsuccessful.

Some partygoers refused medical treatment and didn't want to press any charges, Lorenz said.

A 27-year-old man, who had blood stains on his shirt, reportedly told police he was struck on the lip and hit on the head with a chair.

Another man had blood all over his face due to a cut on his eyebrow, police reported.

Termendzyan was released Sunday after posting bail, Lorenz said.

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