Texas home-health agency indicted in $13 million Medicare fraud: U.S. Justice Dept.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested and indicted the owners and administrators of a Texas-based home-health agency on Tuesday for defrauding Medicare of around $13 million through billing for unnecessary or non-existent services, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
The agency owned by Ebong Tilong and Marie Neba allegedly devised a web of kickbacks where physicians authorized home-health services and patients in on the scheme received a share of the payments, the department said.
(Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
