Supply Firm Manager Gets 4 Years For Medicare Fraud Scam
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The manager of a California medical supply firm has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for a $1 million-plus Medicare scheme.
Los Angeles prosecutors say 45-year-old Petros Odachyan of North Hollywood used forged medical prescriptions to bill Medicare for unneeded electric wheelchairs, hospital beds and other medical equipment, much of it never provided to patients.
Odachyan, the manager of Tujunga-based RL Medical Supply, was sentenced Monday to 51 months in prison.
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