A federal jury convicted the founder and owner of HealthSplash for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs out of more than $1 billion. According to court documents and trial evidence, Brett Blackman and his co-conspirators aggressively targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to get them to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces and other items. They then arranged for purported telemedicine doctors to sign bogus prescription orders for these items so that their co-conspirators could bill Medicare for them. Co-defendant Gary Cox was previously convicted and sentenced. Read a story from Medical Economics and a Department of Justice press release.