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Florida Woman Sentenced To Prison For Healthcare Fraud

Tampa, Florida, Tuesday, February 12, 2019–U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Lisa McLaren Janick, 48, Port Charlotte, to 16 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud.

According to court records, while employed as a marketer at a home health agency, Janick falsified documents relating to patients from her husband’s medical office and created referrals for these patients to receive home health services from her employer, when Janick knew that the patients were not entitled to such services.

Janick’s husband, Dr. John Janick (73, Port Charlotte), was previously sentenced to five months in prison for obstruction of a federal audit.

This case was investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rachel Jones.

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Woman Pleads Guilty of Conspiracy in $60 Million Hospice Care Scheme

The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced that Patricia Armstrong, 32, of Coppell, TX pleaded guilty on November 1 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

The U.S. Attorney said Armstrong admitted to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of over $60 million by causing those programs to be billed for hospice beneficiaries who were ineligible for hospice care, were fraudulently recruited to hospice care, or who were not provided billed-for services.

She now faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, the U.S. Attorney said. The FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the case.