Five individuals, including a former hospital administrator and medical staff, in Florida were arrested after state law enforcement officials charged them with various felonies related to healthcare fraud, according to a news release from the office of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
An investigation into activities at HC Healthcare, owner of the now-closed Trinity Community Hospital and its affiliated clinics in Hamilton, Suwanee and Columbia, resulted in arrests of HC Healthcare owner Robert A. Krasnow, his father Robert T. Krasnow, Yong Am Park, MD, hospital administrator Christina L. Ortega and licensed practical nurse Ashley Lane Butler. They face charges including racketeering, Medicaid fraud, money laundering, aggravated white collar crime and operating a scheme to defraud.
All are charged with unnecessarily admitting Medicaid patients to the hospital facility and, in some cases, falsifying medical information in order to defend those admissions. False claims were also filed to Medicaid for services that Dr. Park was not licensed to perform. Additionally, over $660,000 in state grant funds were received by HC Healthcare for hospital improvements, much of which was not used for that primary purpose but to fund the fraudulent activity. Robert A. Krasnow is being held responsible for laundering money, and the fraudulent distribution of more than $130,000 in Medicaid funds.
Read the news release on the case of Florida Medicaid fraud.
Read more coverage on recent healthcare fraud cases:
- Florida Operation Aims to shutdown Fake Prescription Fraud
- New York Dentist Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Filing False Claims, False Tax Return
- Associate of Indicted Indiana Physician Accused of Writing False Prescriptions
An investigation into activities at HC Healthcare, owner of the now-closed Trinity Community Hospital and its affiliated clinics in Hamilton, Suwanee and Columbia, resulted in arrests of HC Healthcare owner Robert A. Krasnow, his father Robert T. Krasnow, Yong Am Park, MD, hospital administrator Christina L. Ortega and licensed practical nurse Ashley Lane Butler. They face charges including racketeering, Medicaid fraud, money laundering, aggravated white collar crime and operating a scheme to defraud.
All are charged with unnecessarily admitting Medicaid patients to the hospital facility and, in some cases, falsifying medical information in order to defend those admissions. False claims were also filed to Medicaid for services that Dr. Park was not licensed to perform. Additionally, over $660,000 in state grant funds were received by HC Healthcare for hospital improvements, much of which was not used for that primary purpose but to fund the fraudulent activity. Robert A. Krasnow is being held responsible for laundering money, and the fraudulent distribution of more than $130,000 in Medicaid funds.
Read the news release on the case of Florida Medicaid fraud.
Read more coverage on recent healthcare fraud cases:
- Florida Operation Aims to shutdown Fake Prescription Fraud
- New York Dentist Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Filing False Claims, False Tax Return
- Associate of Indicted Indiana Physician Accused of Writing False Prescriptions