Trio Charged with Fraud

Podiatrist Ryan Scott Ellsworth and two nurses who worked for him, Emily Kelly and Drake Dell Broadbent, have been charged with fraud. They allegedly knew billing Medicare for a skin substitute was permissible only if medically necessary and if basic wound care had been administered to a wound for the previous 30 days. They also routinely did not pursue Medicare copayments from beneficiaries for skin substitutes that, at times, would have been thousands of dollars owed by a Medicare beneficiary. Read a story from ABC 4 and a Department of Justice press release.

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