A federal jury convicted a Florida female today in a health care fraud scheme that billed personal health insurance companies more than $58 million for services that were never ever supplied and were not medically essential.
According to court files and proof provided at trial, Carie Lyn Beetle, 44, of Lake City, with others, unlawfully billed health insurance companies for over $58 million of addiction treatment services that were never ever rendered and/or were medically unneeded at 2 centers she ran: Reality Recovery Delray LLC (RLR), a substance abuse treatment center, and A Safe Location LLC, dba Halfway There Florida LLC (HWT), an associated recovery house, likewise referred to as a “sober house.”
The proof revealed that Beetle and her co-conspirators hired patients by offering them with kickbacks and allurements in the kind of complimentary or lowered lease, payment for travel, and other benefits in exchange for those patients concurring to live at HWT, go to drug treatment at RLR, and send to routine and random drug screening (normally 2 or 3 times weekly) at RLR and HWT. Beetle and her co-conspirators then billed the patients’ insurance plans for the substance abuse treatment and urine screening services the patients were supposedly getting. In numerous circumstances, individual patients did not go to the billedtreatment session On such celebrations, Beetle and her co-conspirators triggered staff members and patients of HWT/RLR to create patients’ signatures on sign-in sheets to make it look like though missing patients had actually gone totreatment In addition, Beetle and her co-conspirators triggered pricey medically unneeded urine screening to be billed for patients understanding that the tests were extreme, not used in treatment, and not examined by medical professionals.
The proof even more revealed that Beetle washed the profits understanding they stemmed from fraud and other criminal activities when she transferred a check from RLR.
Beetle was convicted of one count of conspiracy to dedicate health care fraud and wire fraud, and one count of cash laundering. She is arranged to be sentenced later on this year and deals with an optimal sentence of twenty years in jail on the conspiracy count and up to ten years in jail on the cash laundering count. A federal district court judge will identify any sentence after thinking about the U.S. Sentencing Standards and other statutory aspects.
Assistant Attorney General Of The United States Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Crook Department; Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Crook Investigative Department; Unique Representative in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Workplace; Deputy Chief James D. Robnett of IRS-Criminal Examination (IRS-CI); and Unique Representative in Charge Matthew D. Line of IRS-CI’s Miami Field Workplace made the statement.
The FBI, IRS-CI, the Florida Bureau of Insurance Fraud, and Amtrak Workplace of Inspector General examined the case.
Senior Lawsuits Counsel Jim Hayes and Trial Lawyer Ligia Markman and Reginald Cuyler Jr. of the Crook Department’s Fraud Area are prosecuting the case.
The National Rapid Reaction Strike Force and Los Angeles Strike Force lead the Department of Justice’s Sober Residences Effort, which was revealed in the 2020 National Health Care Fraud Takedown to prosecute accuseds who make use of susceptible patients looking for treatment for drug and/or alcohol addiction