DME Owner Pleads Guilty

Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub, who owned and operated multiple durable medical equipment (DME) companies, pleaded guilty. She admitted that in operating the DME companies, she and co-conspirators paid unlawful kickback payments to sham marketing companies who provided bogus prescriptions for DME. Medicare beneficiaries confirmed that they were never examined by a doctor related to the prescribed DME and never used nor even opened the packages containing the DME. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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