Shubaralyan, who was the listed owner of CHH Medical Supply, submitted all of the company's claims to Medicare. Power wheelchairs and accessories constituted over 98 percent of the company's billings to Medicare. In addition, Shubaralyan withdrew over $195,000 in cash from the company's bank account in order to purchase the power wheelchair prescriptions.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant Chief John S. (Jay) Darden and Trial Attorney Jonathan Baum of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, with the investigative assistance of the FBI. The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Federal Prosecutors have indicted 115 cases with 257 defendants in Miami, Los Angeles, and Detroit since the inception of strike force operations in March 2007. Collectively, these defendants are alleged to have fraudulently billed the Medicare program for more than $600 million.
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The joint DOJ-HHS Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of federal, state and local investigators designed to combat Medicare fraud through the use of Medicare data analysis techniques and an increased focus on community policing. In May 2009, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services announced the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team ("HEAT"), a joint effort to prevent fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country. As part of the HEAT initiative, Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations were expanded from South Florida and Los Angeles to Detroit and Houston. To learn more about the HEAT initiative, go to: www.hhs.gov/stopmedicarefraud.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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