Medical Equipment Company Owner Convicted

Raheel Naviwala was convicted for his role in a durable medical equipment (DME) kickback scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses to Medicare and other insurance providers. Evidence at trial showed that Naviwala and his co-conspirators purchased lists of Medicare patients’ names, addresses, and phone numbers and hired telemarketers to convince the patients to get DME. These telemarketers prefilled prescriptions and picked the highest-paying braces to bill to insurers. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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