Clinic Owner Sentenced for Orchestrating $15 Million Scheme

Gwendolyn Gibbs, the owner of mental health clinic Daybreak Rehabilitation Center, must serve seven years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release. She also must pay almost $8.7 million in restitution. Gibbs submitted fraudulent claims for partial hospitalization program (PHP) services to Medicare that were not provided or not medically necessary. A PHP is a form of intensive outpatient treatment for severe mental illness. She fraudulently billed Medicare for services provided to vulnerable adults with intellectual disabilities who did not require mental health services. Read a story from Click 2 Houston and a Department of Justice press release.

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