A Texas home health owner and operator was sentenced to more than two years in prison in a $21 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.
Felix Amos, 72, of Houston, was the last sentenced in the fraud conspiracy, after pleading guilty in 2018 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. At the sentencing Oct. 31, 2022, the judge ordered Amos to serve 30 months in jail and further ordered him to pay nearly $21.2 million in restitution.
Amos was accused of paying physicians to certify Medicare beneficiaries for home health services they either didn’t need or didn’t quality for.
At a trial for another defendant in the fraud case, prosecutors noted some claims were submitted for Medicare beneficiaries who were dead more than three years or incarcerated in prison, according to a DOJ release.
That defendant, office manager Fausat Adekunle, 39, of Richmond, Texas, ended in a guilty verdict and a judge’s order for her to serve 12 years in federal prison and to pay restitution of nearly $21.2 million.