Westmoreland Times reports:
Aileen Gong, D.P.M., 55 years of age, of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment with health care fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, according to an announcement by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that between 2009 and February 2014, Gong, a podiatrist, submitted at least $480,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare.
According to the indictment, Gong submitted claims for patient visits that never occurred — including visits that she claimed took place while she was outside of the United States — and submitted claims for procedures that she did not perform on patients who did visit her office in Philadelphia. It is further alleged that as part of the scheme she knowingly used, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person, that is, the unique Medicare Beneficiary Number of patients.
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