CEO Dike Ajiri pleads guilty to $1.9 million Medicare fraud, 'upcoded' claims
Mobile Doctors chief billed Medicare for in home-treatments that were longer than they actually were.
Dike Ajiri, chief executive officer at Chicago-based Mobile Doctors, recently plead guilty to charges that he fraudulently billed Medicare for in home-treatments that were longer than they actually were.
In total, Ajiri's firm billed Medicare and the Railroad Retirement Board of Chicago $1.9 million in fake claims.
Ajiri, in his plea to U.S. District Judge John Tharp Jr., admitted to changing patient records to include longer treatment times or more serious conditions, a fraud known as "upcoding." He also admitted to instructing his staff to upcode claims as well.
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He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 16, 2016.
His company, which contracted with physicians to arrange in-home visits for patients in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and other states, has since gone out of business.
The investigation also resulted in the arrest of Banio Koroma, a physician who formerly worked with Mobile Doctors. He is charged with falsely claiming patients were home-bound when they were not. His trial is slated to begin in December.
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