Bloomingdale doctor pleads guilty to $4 million Medicare fraud
A Bloomingdale doctor has pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud charges that federal authorities said cost taxpayers at least $4 million.
Arthur Davida, 62, pleaded guilty to fraudulently certifying patients as confined to home, when at least 20 percent of his patients were not. Through the home confinement designation, health care agencies billed Medicare for "unnecessary in-home treatment," prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Davida was making the certifications from 2010 through 2013 via his association with Home Care Physicians Inc. and knew that patients had to have the certification in order to qualify for Medicare benefits. During that time his company received more than $20 million in Medicare payments. Davida acknowledged at least $4 million of that was from fraudulent reports.
He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison at his sentencing hearing slated for Dec. 16.