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Every health care enforcement release from the Department of Justice and the HHS Office of Inspector General, including state attorneys general and Medicaid fraud control units, fetched daily and read into the same schema the detectors use. Each one links to the providers it names when the match is certain, and the newest is dated March 20, 2026. These are public records of charges, pleas, sentences and settlements, not findings by Verity.

DOJCivil settlementMar 20, 2026MD

Health Care Management Corporation Agrees to Pay $4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

CVR knowingly submitted claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for sclerotherapy, radiofrequency ablation, and endovenous laser ablation procedures to treat chronic venous insufficiency that were not clinically indicated and were medically unnecessary between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2016.

$4.0M orderedMedicare, Medicaid, TRICARE2 providers in Verity
DOJCivil settlementNov 20, 2025MD

Diagnostic Laboratory Agrees to Pay More Than $1 Million to Settle Alleged False Claims Act Violations

GTI agreed to pay $1.635 million to resolve allegations that it submitted Medicare claims for respiratory pathogen panels that were medically unnecessary or obtained through kickbacks paid under a marketing services agreement with an infection prevention company for laboratory test referrals from long-term care facilities.

$1.6M orderedMedicare1 provider in Verity
DOJSentencedNov 13, 2025MD

Baltimore County Woman Sentenced for Impersonating Nurses and Aggravated Identity Theft

Amponsah used stolen nursing licenses and false educational and professional histories to obtain employment as a purported licensed nurse at no less than 40 facilities in Maryland that billed health care benefit programs including Medicare and Medicaid for services she provided, earning more than $145,000 in wages.

$145K allegedMedicare, Medicaid
DOJPleaded guiltyAug 14, 2025MD

Baltimore County Woman Admits to Impersonating Nurses, Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft

Amponsah used stolen nursing licenses and false educational and professional histories to obtain employment as a purported licensed nurse at no less than 40 facilities in Maryland, which billed health care benefit programs including Medicare and Medicaid for services she provided.

$100K allegedMedicare, Medicaid
DOJCivil judgmentAug 11, 2025MD

United States Obtains More Than $1.4 Million Judgment Against Family Medical Practitioner for Fraudulent Billing

Akoto billed Medicare for auricular stimulation (P-Stim) devices using a code for a surgically implanted neurostimulator device, which Medicare does not reimburse as acupuncture.

$1.4M orderedMedicare2 providers in Verity
DOJIndictedMay 28, 2025MD

South Carolina Man Charged for Multimillion-Dollar Medicare Fraud and Ponzi Schemes

Britton-Harr allegedly billed Medicare through his company Provista Health for respiratory pathogen panel tests for nursing home patients that were medically unnecessary, never ordered by a treating physician, and in many cases never performed, causing more than $15 million in fraudulent claims.

$15.0M allegedMedicare
DOJIndictedMay 28, 2025MD

South Carolina Man Charged in Maryland for Multi-Million-Dollar Medicare Fraud and Ponzi Schemes

Britton-Harr offered COVID-19 screening tests to nursing home patients and, through his company Provista Health, caused the submission of more than $15 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for respiratory pathogen panel tests that were medically unnecessary, not ordered by a treating physician, and in many cases never performed, including for deceased patients.

$15.0M allegedMedicare
DOJCivil settlementSep 6, 2024MD

Medical Device Company To Pay $700,000 To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning Inflated Reimbursements From Medicare And Medicaid

THD agreed to pay $700,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly caused physicians to use incorrect codes to obtain inflated reimbursement from Medicare and State Medicaid programs for use of its Slide One Kit hemorrhoid removal system between 2014 and 2017.

$700K orderedMedicare, Medicaid
DOJCivil settlementSep 6, 2024MD

Medical Device Company to Pay $700,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning Inflated Reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid

THD allegedly violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing physicians to use incorrect codes to obtain inflated reimbursement from Medicare and State Medicaid programs for use of its Slide One Kit hemorrhoid removal system.

$700K orderedMedicare, Medicaid
DOJSentencedApr 9, 2024MD

Holy Health Care Services, LLC Owner Sentenced to 3 Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud Scheme

Bakari and co-conspirators paid bribes and kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries to visit Holy Health and caused Holy Health to bill Medicaid for community support and other mental health services that were not rendered or not provided as billed.

$3.3M alleged$3.3M orderedMedicaid1 provider in Verity
DOJSentencedFeb 12, 2024MD

Holy Health Care Services, LLC Program Administrator Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for a Health Care Fraud Scheme

Mbom and co-conspirators paid Medicaid beneficiaries to visit Holy Health and used their personal information, along with fabricated community support worker employees, to bill D.C. Medicaid for mental health services that were not rendered or not rendered as billed.

$4.5M alleged$4.5M orderedMedicaid1 provider in Verity
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