Owner of Medical Billing Company Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud Scheme

August 20, 2018

According to the report, Billings USA received or created fabricated bills for its clinic customers. The clinics would then bill insurance companies for allowable amounts and create records to back up the charges.  Billings USA collected a 6% fee on the reimbursement from insurers. Palma’s company filed $5.7 million in fraudulent claims to Blue Cross Blue Shield with one clinic and then an additional $5.9 million in fraudulent claims to Blue Cross and Cigna with another clinic.

Mauricio Palma, the owner of medical billing office Billing USA in Miami, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Palma faces $2.1 million in restitution lost $1.8 million in forfeiture.

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