DME Owner Sentenced

Deane Gilmore, who owned and managed durable medical equipment (DME) companies Jupiter Medical Associates Inc. and Granite Medical Associates Inc., was sentenced to over a year in prison and ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture of $2.3 million. Gilmore illegally paid telemarketers who obtained medical information from Medicare beneficiaries to prepare orders for DME, such as back, knee, wrist, or ankle braces. The orders provided by the telemarketers made it appear that medical practitioners were legitimately prescribing DME to these beneficiaries when, in fact, the orders were frequently medically unnecessary and based on false documentation. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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