Man Pleads Guilty in Foot Bath Scheme

A graphic shows a foot in a tub of water.

Frank Suess and his codefendants conspired to commit health care fraud through an arrangement designed to bill individuals’ health insurances for medically unnecessary prescription drug combinations known as “foot baths,” according to U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller. Suess admitted that the scheme to bill for fraudulent foot bath orders involved getting prechecked, templated order forms through “health fairs” organized by certain codefendants and their associates. Suess also admitted that he and his codefendants knowingly ignored complaints from individuals who received foot baths. These complaints included not wanting foot baths, not having ever seen a foot doctor, having their insurance “charged a lot of money,” being “freaked out” because there were no instructions regarding what to do with the medications, and being “scared of the box” of foot baths because it contained “such a huge amount of meds.” Read a Department of Justice press release.