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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Marylan Heights, as well as assorted assisted livingv facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louis County, in Aprilo to one felony count of obstructionb of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executex a civil settlement agreement with the United Stateas requiring her to pay the Medicarerprogram $425,000. Stafford billed Medicarwe for numerous complex foot surgery procedures provideds to 39 local Medicare beneficiariexs when she was really providing these patientse with only routine foot such as toenail clipping, prosecutors said.
When she was auditee by the Medicare programin 2007, Medicare denied her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requested that she repay $6,84o for non-covered services that had been previously paid to her. Stafford challengefd this and as part of her efforts to avoixd payingthe overpayment, Stafford createcd new treatment records for those 39 patients in back-dating them to using fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had providecd these patients with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutor s said.
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