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WASHINGTON D.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"fraud-medicare-card-cube\"<\/a>The former owner of Ezcor Medical Supply<\/strong> in Valencia was sentenced today to serve 97 months in federal prison for her role in a fraud scheme that resulted in $3.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal.<\/p>\n

U.S District Judge R. Gary Klausner<\/strong> also ordered\u00a0Sylvia Walter-Eze,<\/strong> 48, of Stevenson Ranch, California<\/strong>, to pay restitution in the amounts of $1.8 million to Medicare and $73,268 to Medi-Cal.<\/p>\n

Walter-Eze was found guilty by a federal jury on March 20 of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, four counts of health care fraud, and one count of conspiracy to pay illegal health care kickbacks.<\/p>\n

The evidence indicated that Walter-Eze, the former owner of Ezcor, a durable medical equipment \u00a0supply company, fraudulently billed more than $3.5 million to Medicare and Medi-Cal for DME that was not medically necessary.<\/p>\n

The trial evidence also demonstrated that Walter-Eze paid illegal kickbacks to patient recruiters in exchange for patient referrals.<\/p>\n

The evidence further showed that Walter-Eze paid kickbacks to physicians for fraudulent prescriptions for medically unnecessary, and expensive, power wheelchairs, which prescriptions<\/p>\n

Walter-Eze then used to support her fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal.<\/p>\n

The evidence showed that, between 2007 and 2012, Walter-Eze submitted $3,521,786 in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal, and that she received $1,939,529 in reimbursement for those claims.<\/p>\n

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