Another North Texas healthcare fraudster bites the dust
Steven Berglund and four others have been sentenced over a scheme involving fraudulent lab reports and kickbacks.On Tuesday, a North Texas healthcare company owner was sentenced to prison over fraud charges, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice in North Texas., who owns Elite Healthcare, for a conspiracy in which he and others pocketed proceeds and facilitated financial kickbacks.
According to prosecutors, Berglund, Elite Healthcare co-owner Aaron Cerpanya, former Palo Pinto CEO Harris Brooks, MedHealth Solutions cofounder Adam Gardner and MedHealth Solutions cofounder Cody Waddell “submitted more than $54 million in laboratory services claims,” which led insurers to pay Palo Pinto upward of $8 million.
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