In an update to an August 1, 2024, story, Michael Brier has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $3.5 million in restitution. Read a Department of Justice press release.
Michael Brier and Recovery Connections Centers of America Inc. (RCCA) admitted that they failed to provide patients with required counseling sessions and treatment while simultaneously billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care payors routinely for 45-minute counseling sessions even though the sessions were often only five to 10 minutes or less. Briar and RCCA also admitted that they caused a fraudulent application to be submitted to Medicare that, among other things, misrepresented and concealed the role that Brier was playing in the business and failed to disclose Brier’s 2013 criminal conviction for federal tax crimes. Read a story from ABC6 and a Department of Justice press release.