{"id":215078,"date":"2012-09-26T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=215078"},"modified":"2012-09-27T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:54:40","slug":"guilty-plea-in-multi-state-health-care-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=215078","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Plea in Multi-State Health Care Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=215079\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-215079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/thumb_Federalcourthouse21-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Federalcourthouse2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-215079\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A Houston man has appeared in Tyler federal court to plead guilty to in connection with a multi-state health care fraud scheme. Sunday Adebisi, 59, appeared yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Judith K. Guthrie. A sentencing date has not been set. Adebisi faces up to 5 years in prison in addition to court ordered restitution and criminal forfeiture. <\/p>\n<p> On August 1, 2012, a federal grand jury returned a sixteen count indictment charging Adebisi, the owner of a Maryland medical supply company, with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, from January 2007 through September 2009, Adebisi and others carried out a scheme to defraud Medicare through the marketing of power wheelchairs and accessories, as well as \u201cortho kits,\u201d which primarily consisted of a bag of orthotic items, including braces, wraps, and supports, and a heat lamp or heat pad.  As part of the scheme, the defendant and his co-conspirators illegally obtained protected health information, including names, dates of birth, and Medicare numbers from elderly individuals.  Adebisi supplied beneficiaries with kits and power wheelchairs which were not prescribed or otherwise authorized by a physician and which were not wanted by the beneficiaries. Claims were submitted by the defendant for approximately 480 beneficiaries located in Texas, Louisiana, and elsewhere.  Adebisi submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare of more than $2.4 million and obtained more than $855,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A Houston man has appeared in Tyler federal court to plead guilty to in connection with a multi-state health care fraud scheme. Sunday Adebisi, 59, appeared yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Judith K. Guthrie. A sentencing date has not been set. Adebisi faces up to 5 years in prison in addition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=215078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guilty Plea in Multi-State Health Care Fraud Scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 20:22:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215300,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215078\/revisions\/215300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}