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Re: Psychologist sentenced last month for Defrauding Medicare
Re: Psychologist sentenced last month for Defrauding Medicare -- Posted by Barbara Schwarz on 05-22-04 15:03
newzforyou@aol.com (NewzForYou) wrote in message news:<20040522102338.28998.00000951@mb-m22.aol.com>...
> Psychologist sentenced for Defrauding Medicare
>
> On April 1, US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Alice H. Martin
> announced that Dr. Todd Everett Walborn of Birmingham, Alabama was sentenced to
> 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,801,980 in restitution to Medicare.
> Walborn was given three years supervised release following his prison sentence.
>
> WALBORN, a clinical psychologist, submitted false claims to Medicare during
> 1998, 1999, and 2000. Many of the Medicare claims reflected that WALBORN,
> personally provided services when actually persons who were not psychologists
> provided the services billed. Also, WALBORN billed Medicare for psychological
> testing services when actually lesser paying services had been provided.
> Additionally, WALBORN overstated the amount of time spent providing services.
> Evidence developed during the investigation reflected that WALBORN would bill
> as much as 14 hours for services when as little as 1 ½ hours was actually
> spent. All of the false claims submitted by WALBORN were for Medicare
> beneficiaries who were residents in nursing homes in north and central Alabama.
> WALBORN received over $2,300,000 in Medicare payments, a large portion of which
> the evidence showed was fraudulent.
>
> For more: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/Pages/newsreleasesmain.html
There you have the big tax payer money waster.
And those ARS idiots attack me and accuse me wrongfully of that
because of filing FOIA requests to the government.
Hey, Kim P., let's deport Walborn. As psychiatry is a German dirty
invention, the Germans should get all the psychs and their trolls,
that also includes you. Should they deal with them.
Barbara Schwarz
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