A former agency owner in Houston, Texas, will serve time in prison for her role in a Medicare fraud case that led to billing totaling $10.7 million and payments for purported home health services worth $6.8 million, according to prosecutors.
Naomi Moore, 59, was sentenced Aug. 16, 2022, after pleading guilty April 7, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.
U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge imposed the statutory maximum of 60 months to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release. In handing down the prison terms, Judge Eskridge noted a variance would not appropriate given the amount of money involved in the scheme.
Moore was the owner of Friend’s Place and Metro Health Services, both home health care service businesses located in Houston. From May 2006 to June 2019, Moore billed Medicare by fraudulently using names of beneficiaries that were not patients of Metro or Friend’s Place. They did not need home health services, were not treated by a physician and had never been patients.
Moore created false documents and billed Medicare for approximately $10.7 million in purported home health services. The federal health insurance paid nearly $6.8 million on those claims.