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Home Care Fraud Trial Ends In Guilty Verdict For Doc
After a four-day trial, a federal jury has convicted Michigan physician Millicent Traylor on charges related to an $8.9 million home care fraud scheme, says the Department of Justice in a release. According to evidence presented at trial, from 2011 to 2016, Traylor, who was unlicensed at the time, acted as a physician for multiple companies including United Home Health Care Inc. in Ferndale. Traylor was found guilty of providing services that were not medically necessary or were not rendered, the DOJ says. Traylor and her co-conspirators falsified medical records, signed false documents, and paid and received kickbacks in exchange for referring Medicare beneficiaries to serve as patients. The trial evidence also showed that Traylor fraudulently signed the names of licensed physicians on prescriptions for opioid medications as a means of inducing patient participation in the scheme, according to the release. Traylor faces sentencing Sept. 27. Her three codefendants in the case, physician clinic owner Jacklyn Price, United owner Muhammad Qazi, and physician Christina Kimbrough pleaded guilty last year and are awaiting sentencing. See the indictment online at www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/981341/download.
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