October 18, 2007

Last of 21 Defendants Sentenced in Private Insurance Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

On October 10, 2007 Dmitry Rakovsky was sentenced by United States District Judge Marcia G. Cooke in Miami, Florida. Rakovsky was sentenced to a term of 59 months in prison, prisoner.jpgto be followed by a term of three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to forfeit property and pay restitution in the amount of $900,000.

Rakovsky, and co-defendants Boris Royzen and his wife Eva Royzen, were charged in a twenty-one (21) defendant, thirty-three (33) count health care fraud Indictment. The Indictment charged doctors, chiropractors, massage therapists, an office manager, and four medical clinics, Vista Mar Medical Rehab Corp., Plantation Medical Recovery Center, Inc., Romana Medical, Inc., and Dial Medical Rehab, Inc., with health care fraud. Rakovsky was the final defendant to be sentenced in this case.

Previously Boris Royzen was sentenced to 40 months in prison, followed by three years supervised release. He was also ordered to forfeit property and pay $1.8 million restitution. His wife, Eva, was previously sentenced to three years of probation, forfeit property and pay restitution in the amount of $1.8 million. The medical clinics were ordered to pay restitution as follows: Vista Mar: $70,674.08; Romana Medical: $20,641.85; Plantation Medical Recovery: $31,292.75; and Dial Medical: $13,818.06.

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April 27, 2007

NJ Chiropractor Sentenced

On April 20, 2007 New Jersey Attorney General and Criminal Justice Director announced that a Bergen County chiropractor has been sentenced after pleading guilty for his role in a health care insurance fraud.

According to prosecutors, Marc Centrelli, 46, of Sparta, was ordered by Superior Court Judge William C. Meehan in Bergen County to pay $14,805 in fines and restitution, and to serve one year probation. In addition, Centrelli’s chiropractic license was suspended for three years and he must successfully complete an ethics course before resuming practice. The sentence was imposed pursuant to Centrelli’s guilty plea to filing fraudulent health care claims.

At the guilty plea hearing before Judge Meehan, Centrelli, a licensed chiropractor with an office in Fair Lawn, admitted that between April 30, 2003, and Feb. 11, 2004, he recklessly submitted more than $9,725 in insurance claims to the Selective Insurance Company pursuant to the Personal Injury Protection (PIP) portion of automobile insurance policies provided by the several insurance carriers. Centrelli admitted that the insurance claims were submitted for undelivered services. Investigators determined that, for many of the dates on which Centrelli submitted the claims, he was out of the office and not seeing patients.

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