TRENTON – Two home health aides working for a Hackensack
agency were charged with submitting bogus Medicaid bills for services that they
never provided, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said Monday.
Anatoli Rountsev, 52, of Totowa, and Naum Lavnevich, 56, of
Oakland, worked for Confident Care Corporation, a company that is headquartered
in Hackensack and has 10 satellite offices throughout New Jersey, as well as
offices in Florida, Hoffman said.
In separate indictments, Rountsev was charged with 43 counts
of health care claims fraud and Lavnevich was charged with 154 counts of health
care claims fraud. Both men were also charged with one count of Medicaid fraud
and one count of theft by deception.
According to the indictment, Rountsev caused 463 false
claims to be submitted to Medicaid for services that he did not provide between
January 2008 and June 2009.
He allegedly failed to provide home health aide services for
Medicaid beneficiaries on hundreds of claims because he was actually at
another, unrelated job, the indictment said, adding that Medicaid paid $12,598
as a result.
The separate indictment against Lavnevich said that between
January 2008 and October 2010, he caused 178 claims to be submitted to Medicaid
for services that were not provided, resulting in payments of $5,614.
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3 comments:
Can't blame the thieves. Government has the job to make sure this doesn't happen, and I don't mean just by arresting the thieves.
If we can send a rocket to the moon, why can't we stop thieving up front?
I hope they receive a tough sentence. And they need to pay it back.
I agree 100%! But the system likes to pay the claims. It perpetuates an economic cash flow which ultimately gets back in the hands of greedy politicians.
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