A podiatrist was convicted of eight counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare and submitting false claims to Medicare. She falsely claimed that she provided routine nail care to patients when, in fact, those patients never received the care or never possessed a condition that would require the care she identified for Medicare reimbursement. Read a Department of Justice press release.
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