A Henderson doctor is accused of running a $95 million scheme to defraud Medicare, according to federal authorities.
A grand jury indicted Stephen Dubin, 74, for allegedly billing for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts performed on senior Medicare patients, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nevada announced in a news release.
“This indictment exposes a scheme driven by greed, not medicine. As alleged, this provider exploited elderly patients by pushing costly and unnecessary medical procedures, then lied to Medicare to pocket millions of taxpayer dollars,” Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division said in a statement.
Prosecutors believe the doctor got other criminal payments, bribes and rebates from two different allograft distributors, while Medicare paid over $54 million.
According to the claims, Dubin and other co-conspirators administered the allografts to patients regardless of medical necessity. This included administering them to infected wounds, wounds that were not responding to treatment, and in quantities that surpassed the size of wounds.
Prosecutors say Dubin used the money to fund an extravagant lifestyle, including the construction of multimillion-dollar yachts for himself.
The indictment charges Dubin with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud. If convicted, he faces up to ten years in prison on each count.
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