Damian Williams, the United States Legal professional for the Southern District of New York, announced that MATTHEW TAYLOR WITKOWSKI pled guilty today to a just one-rely criminal Information charging him with conspiracy to dedicate well being care fraud. WITKOWSKI is scheduled to be sentenced on April 20, 2023, before United States District Decide Denise Cote.
U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams reported: “Medicare is a useful, taxpayer-funded program built to present very affordable health and fitness treatment to men and women above 65 or with disabilities, not to enrich individuals who would seek out to profit on their own by way of fraud. Today, Matthew Taylor Witkowski admitted to illegally marketing orders for long lasting clinical devices, which ended up used to bilk Medicare out of thousands and thousands of bucks.”
In accordance to the Details, statements built in court docket, and other publicly submitted files in this situation:
From at least August 2019 via the day of his arrest in July 2022, WITKOWSKI and a co-conspirator (“CC-1”) engaged in a plan to defraud Medicare by illegally getting and advertising fraudulent prepared orders for goods and expert services paid out for by Medicare, such as for long lasting clinical machines (“DME”). Using a simply call heart that he owned and operated in the Dominican Republic, WITKOWSKI illegally generated and procured fraudulent penned orders for DME and then sold those fraudulent orders to pharmacies and DME suppliers, including in New York City. People pharmacies and DME suppliers then used all those fraudulent orders as the basis for more than $8 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. Many of these fraudulent orders used names and personalized wellbeing details of real Medicare beneficiaries, without the beneficiaries’ authorization or prior awareness. Many of these fraudulent orders also contained professional info of physicians and other health-treatment vendors enrolled in the Medicare program, as properly as the purported electronic signatures of these providers, which were being falsified and established with no the authorization or expertise of these vendors.
All through the study course of the plan, WITKOWSKI took a lot more than $4 million in illegal kickbacks from DME suppliers, who designed these payments to Accurate Potential customers Advertising, Inc., a organization managed by Witkowski and CC-1, and to Gross sales Travel Marketing LLC, a business owned and managed by WITKOWSKI.
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WITKOWSKI, 37, an American citizen who has been residing in the Dominican Republic, and is now on bail in Florida, pled responsible nowadays to a solitary rely of conspiracy to dedicate overall health treatment fraud. That demand carries a greatest sentence of 10 many years in jail.
The most possible sentence is prescribed by Congress and is presented here for informational functions only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be decided by the sentencing judge.
Mr. Williams praised the investigative operate of the Business office of the Inspector Standard of the U.S. Office of Wellness and Human Services.
This scenario is being dealt with by the Office’s Elaborate Frauds and Cybercrime Device. Assistant U.S. Legal professional David Raymond Lewis is in demand of the prosecution.