{"id":818267,"date":"2019-09-18T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=818267"},"modified":"2019-09-19T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T18:15:10","slug":"longview-operator-guilty-of-health-care-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=818267","title":{"rendered":"Longview Ambulance Operator Guilty of Health Care Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/09\/Dallas-HCF-PC-091819-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-818268\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A 62-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas.  Joseph Valdie Kimble pleaded guilty to health care fraud.   Kimble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plea was announced Wednesday during a press conference held in Dallas. Kimble operated Tiger EMS, according to information presented in court, Kimble disregarded medical necessity requirements and billed Medicare and Medicaid for ambulance services that were not medically necessary. The plea agreement provides for an agreed sentence of 30 months in federal prison and $751,986.80 in restitution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.  A total of 58 individuals across all four federal districts in Texas were charged for their alleged involvement in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pill mill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d clinics resulting in $66 million in loss and 6.2 million pills.  Of those charged, 16 were doctors or medical professionals, and 20 were charged for their role in diverting opioids.   \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every dollar stolen from Medicare through fraud comes out of the pocket of taxpayers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown of the Eastern District of Texas.   \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These are real costs that help drive up the cost of medical services for everyone. It is important that there be real consequences for those who cheat the system.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A 62-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Joseph Valdie Kimble pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Kimble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plea was announced Wednesday during a press conference held in Dallas. Kimble operated Tiger EMS, according to information presented in court, Kimble disregarded medical necessity requirements and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=818267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Ambulance Operator Guilty of Health Care Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":818268,"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-818267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 03:25:21","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\/818267","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818471,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818267\/revisions\/818471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/818268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}