A Kansas CEO and owner of an internet platform was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in prison for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs out of more than $1 billion.“The Department of Justice and our agency partners dismantled one of the largest telemedicine fraud schemes ever, and yesterday’s lengthy prison sentence holds the orchestrator of that scheme accountable,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “The defendant’s fraud scheme lured hundreds of thousands of
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