Medical equipment company owner gets 78 months in federal prison for $3.1M Medicaid fraud
McALLEN — A federal judge sentenced a McAllen woman Tuesday to more than six years in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid, according to a news release.
U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Anna Ramirez-Ambriz to a 78-month prison term during a sentencing hearing Tuesday, the release stated.
The 57-year-old woman, who owned Compassionate Medical Supply in Edinburg, pleaded true to one count of healthcare fraud on March 31, 2017, court records show, in exchange for the dismissal of two document fraud charges.
In the January 2017 indictment filed against her, government prosecutors alleged Ramirez-Ambriz defrauded the state’s Medicaid program of millions over the course of more than six years by submitting false claims to Texas Medicaid, court records show.
Read more: https://www.themonitor.com/2019/04/30/medical-equipment-company-owner-gets-78-months-federal-prison/
DOJ Press Release:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/operator-mcallen-area-dme-company-sentenced-health-care-fraud
