In an update to an August 24, 2022, story, Dr. Osama Nahas and Isabel Pruneda were sentenced to 10 years and over eight years, respectively, in prison. Both were also ordered to pay over $3.1 million in restitution. Read a Department of Justice press release.
A physician, Osama Balhir Nahas, and an employee, Isabel Moreno Pruneda, have been charged for their roles in a health care fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $3.5 million in claims to Medicare. Nahas, Pruneda, and other co-conspirators used their access to adult day care facilities to perform a variety of unnecessary medical tests and procedures and order prescriptions for expensive medications that were not needed. Most of the patients were allegedly elderly or disabled and lacked the capacity to consent to the examinations, tests, and other procedures that Nahas and Pruneda performed. Read a story from My RGV News and a Department of Justice press release.
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