Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in Health Care Fraud Conspiracy—12/16/11

Alliance Healthcare Services patient recruiter, Ollie Futrell, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge for engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Her four co-owners also pled guilty last week for their roles in the fraud scheme. The case was the first to be prosecuted by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Dallas.

Read more at: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-crm-1657.html