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Published On: Thu, Oct 25th, 2018

Florida Man, Ariel Borrego-Hernandez sentenced to Fifty-Four Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme

U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca G. Jennings sentenced Ariel Borrego-Hernandez, of Naples, Florida, to 54 months in prison, followed by 3 years supervised release for health care fraud, money laundering, and drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.

The Court also ordered Borrego-Hernandez to pay $89,161.81 in restitution, and over $53,000 in fortified cash.

According to the evidence before the Court, beginning no later than on or about June 12, 2012, and continuing through on or about November 1, 2014, Lopez, Ledinson Chavez, Oskel Lezcano, Ariel Borrego-Hernandez, Sergio Betancourt and Yuriesky Diaz Rodriguez recruited unsuspecting chiropractors for employment in Louisville area chiropractic clinics in order to obtain and use the chiropractors’ names and National Provider Identifiers (NPI) to fraudulently bill insurance companies. Each chiropractor provided his/her National Provider Identifier (NPI) number to Lopez and Lezcano in order to credential the clinics with various insurance companies

Thereafter, the group of defendants recruited employees from Jeffboat and others to seek chiropractic services from the clinics. However, unbeknownst to the chiropractors, the clinics billed approximately $5,000,000 for methocarbamol injections (a muscle relaxant), using the patients’ names, dates of birth, insurance/policy numbers, addresses, and patient IDs/Social Security Numbers for injections. Most of the patients from Jeffboat were paid to go to the clinics by the defendants and were told the injections were being billed, according to testimony during trial.

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Borrego-Hernandez, Lopez, Lezcano, Betancourt, and Chavez operated and controlled multiple chiropractic clinics in the Louisville area including: Xpress Diagnostics Center, Inc.; Prudential Chiropractic Medical Center, PLLC; Klondike Chiropractic Medical Center, LLC; Be Well Chiropractic Center, Corp.; Chiropractic and Medical Center, LLC, even though the clinics were placed in various chiropractors’ names.

According to additional court documents on or about March 14, 2017, and March 17, 2017, while on pre-trial release, Borrego and Lopez conspired to traffic in marijuana – which caused about 109 pounds of marijuana to be transported from Colorado to Kentucky.

Assistant United States Attorneys Joseph Ansari, Lettricea Jefferson-Webb and Christopher Tieke prosecuted the case and were assisted by Bob Masterson as health care fraud investigator. The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, the Louisville Metro Police Department, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

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