Schleider caused losses to Medicare and other health care benefit programs of $21.7 million. Schleider and his conspirators obtained prescriptions for the DME braces through the payment of kickbacks and bribes to individuals operating marketing call centers, who in turn utilized the service of telemedicine companies to obtain prescriptions for the DME. Schleider owned and operated durable medical equipment (DME) companies in New Jersey that provided orthotic braces to beneficiaries of Medicare and other federal and private health care benefit programs without regard to medical necessity. Shipp in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of wire fraud.Īccording to documents filed in the case and statements made in court: Sellinger announced today.Īlexander Schleider, 57, of Lakewood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. – An Ocean County, New Jersey, man admitted his role in a durable medical equipment kickback scheme, U.S.

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