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Owner of Houston Health Care Company Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
in Connection WASHINGTON – An owner and operator of a Houston durable
medical equipment (DME) company was sentenced today in Houston federal
court to 30 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme,
announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
Akinsunbo Akinbile, 44, of Richmond, Texas, was sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Keith P. Ellison in Houston. In addition to his prison
term, Akinbile was sentenced to three years of supervised release and
was ordered to pay $471,022 in restitution.
Akinbile pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2011, to eight counts of health
care fraud.
According to court documents, Akinbile was the owner and operator of
Hallco Medical Supply, a company that purported to provide orthotics
and other DME to Medicare beneficiaries. According to court
documents, Hallco submitted claims to Medicare for DME, including
orthotic devices that were medically unnecessary and/or not provided.
Many of the orthotic devices were components of an "arthritis kit,"
and purported to be for the treatment of arthritis-related
conditions. The arthritis kit generally contained a number of
orthotic devices including braces for both sides of the body and
related accessories such as heating pads. From June 2007 through May
2009, Akinbile submitted claims of approximately $737,770 to Medicare
and was paid approximately $471,022.
Today's sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A.
Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney
Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas; Special Agent-In-
Charge Stephen L. Morris of the FBI's Houston Field Office; Special
Agent-in-Charge Mike Fields of the Dallas Regional Office of HHS's
Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations;
Joseph J. Del Favero, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field
Office of the Railroad Retirement Board Office of Inspector General;
and the Texas Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU).
This case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin S.
Blan and Trial Attorney Laura M.K. Cordova of the Criminal Division's
Fraud Section. The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud
Strike Force, supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of Texas and the Criminal Division's Fraud Section.
Since their inception in March 2007, Medicare Fraud Strike Force
operations in nine locations have charged more than 1,190 defendants
who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more
than $3.6 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking
steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of
fraudulent providers.
To learn more about the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement
Action Team (HEAT), go to: www.stopmedicarefraud.gov.
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