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Detroit area physiotherapy after being sentenced to 62 months in prison for his role in medical care fraud:
WASHINGTON, March 24, Sterling Heights, Mich., resident Nathaniel Solomon sentenced today to 62 months in prison for his role in a broad conspiracy to defraud the health care program, announced Assistant Attorney General, I Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Barbara L. McQuade; special agent in charge Andrew G. Arena FBI field office in Detroit; the officer in charge of the Lamont Pugh III of the State Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (drugs - the Office of the Inspector General) Chicago Regional Office. U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox Nathaniel also ordered to pay $ 2,875,000 in the response and to serve three years of release on parole after his imprisonment.

Nathaniel pleaded guilty on October 19, 2009, in the eastern region of the state of Michigan to conspiracy to commit fraud and health care. According to the information contained in the documents of the prosecution, Nathaniel, licensed physical therapist, admitted that he began working in approximately December 2003, as part of the contract wizard to conspirator Suresh Chand, who also pleaded guilty in connection with this case. Chand, which is owned and controlled by many companies operating in the Detroit area, which aims to provide physical and occupational therapy for Medicare beneficiaries. In accordance with the appeal documents, Nathaniel admitted that, Chand and others created the placebo files that appear close to physiotherapy services and occupational medical care provided to beneficiaries, while no such services were provided. According to court documents, services and fake reflected in the files had been described for health care providers through medical care controlled by the pseudo-conspirators.
Nathaniel also acknowledged that through this scheme which was signed by nearly 1,250 fake files and physical therapy, noting that physiotherapy services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, while in fact he was not. Nathaniel admitted that he was paid between $ 90 and $ 110 for each file and forged. Nathaniel also acknowledged that about between December 2003 and July 2006, falsified files physiotherapy, which claims to support the health care program value of approximately $ 6,250,000. Medicare paid approximately $ 2,875,000 on these claims. Nathaniel admitted that all parts of the plot was fully aware that medical care and being a description of the physical therapy services was falsely indicated that he had done.

Chand pleaded guilty on September 28, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to launder money.

This case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys John K. Neal of the Criminal Division and fraud by the Department of Special Assistant U.S. Attorney George Thomas Beimers in the eastern region of the state of Michigan. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Inspector General and drugs, conducted the investigation. The case was transferred as part of medical care Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division in the Department of fraud, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern Region of the state of Michigan.

Since it began in March 2007 of the striking force in seven districts have obtained the indictments of more than 500 individuals who collectively have falsely billed Medicare for more than $ 1.1 billion. In addition, drugs and health care centers and medical services, working in collaboration with the Office of the Inspector General, and drugs, to take steps to increase accountability and reduce the presence of fraudulent providers.