Medical Supply Exec Guilty Of Medicare Fraud

Angela Isley of Atlanta, former COO of medical supplier Orthoscript, Inc., was convicted on Monday by a federal trial jury in Atlanta on 52 counts including health care fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Isley was indicted in February 2007 in connection with a three year scheme in which she allegedly submitted $600,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare and embezzled $360,000 to pay her and her partner’s credit card bills. The Medicare billing fraud involved assigning incorrect product codes to certain products to obtain higher reimbursements.The embezzlement entailed coding company checks as legitimate business expenses while using them to pay her bills. Sentencing is scheduled for July 28 before US District Judge Charles Pannell (Atlanta Business Journal).