Thomas G. O’Lear was convicted of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid out of approximately $2 million by billing for X-ray-related services that his company, Portable Radiology Services, did not provide, for making false statements to cover up the fraud, and for committing aggravated identity theft. False claims include approximately 151 X-ray services purportedly provided to patients on dates after the patients had died. Read a story from the Akron Beacon Journal and a Department of Justice press release.
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