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Medicare Fraud Verdict

A federal jury rules clinic manager Olga Popovych guilty in an $8 million Medicare case

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A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted clinic manager Olga Popovych in an $8 million Medicare fraud conspiracy involving cash kickbacks to ambulette drivers, recruited patients and falsified therapy records.

  1. Frame 1A federal jury rules clinic manager Olga Popovych guilty in an $8 million Medicare case.
  2. Frame 2Prosecutors said clinics paid ambulette drivers cash kickbacks to bring Medicare patients.
  3. Frame 3Trial evidence said records listed therapists who were not actually at the clinics.
  4. Frame 4Medicare paid the clinics over $8 million between 2018 and 2020.
  5. Frame 5Jurors convicted Popovych on health care fraud and false-statement counts.
  6. Frame 6Sentencing comes next: each fraud count carries up to 10 years.
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May 29, 9:15 AM EDT
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