LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas nurse practitioner pleaded responsible to conspiring to fraudulently invoice Medicare for wound care in change for unlawful well being care kickbacks, in response to the U.S. Division of Justice.
Prosecutors charged Mary Huntly, 67, with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and receiving or paying well being care kickbacks.
Huntly utilized medically pointless allografts, a product made with amniotic fluid aimed to assist cussed therapeutic, to Medicare beneficiaries who have been procured by means of unlawful kickbacks and bribes, in response to courtroom paperwork and admissions made in courtroom.
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From September 2022 by means of April 2024, Huntly’s wound care firm fraudulently billed Medicare about $14,333,550 and Medicare paid about $9,105,563 based mostly on these false claims.
Huntly was one in every of greater than 300 defendants charged within the U.S. Division of Justice’s 2025 Nationwide Well being Care Fraud Takedown, in response to a information launch.
Huntly is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 15. She faces a most of 5 years in jail.
