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Streamwood woman gets 6 years for Medicare fraud

The head of a Schaumburg home health care company was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for fraudulently billing Medicare for unnecessary services, officials said.

Diana Jocelyn Gumila, 47, of Streamwood, was found guilty by a jury in April on 21 counts of health care fraud and three counts of making false statements in a health care matter.

As the manager of Suburban Home Physicians, which did business as Doctor at Home, Gumila directed employees to perform in-home visits with patients who were physically capable of leaving their residences and not in need of in-home treatment, federal prosecutors said in a news release.

Gumila also told employees to bill the treatment at the most complicated levels, even though the visits were typically routine and did not qualify for the elevated billing, the release said.

In addition to the prison sentence, Gumila must pay $15.6 million in restitution.

The federal investigation of Doctor at Home previously yielded convictions of Alan Newman, a physician from Chicago, and James Ademiju, a nurse from Matteson. Newman admitted falsely certifying patients for nursing services and Ademiju pleaded guilty to billing for unnecessary services, officials said.

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