This week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Detroit filed charges against eighteen people for engaging in separate, but similar Medicare fraud schemes.  The defendants – doctors, nurses, clinic owners, and other medical professionals – are alleged to have billed Medicare for home health and psychotherapy services which were medically unnecessary or never provided.  Law enforcement agents arrested fifteen people, executed eleven search warrants, and seized twenty-eight bank accounts.

Fourteen of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.  Another three were charged in a separate criminal complaint with health care fraud and submitting false claims.  Together, these schemes defrauded the government of more than $28 million.