A federal jury convicted Louisiana nurse practitioner Shanone
Chatman-Ashley for her $2 million plus health care fraud scheme.
Posted on 05/05/2025 7:06:15 AM PDT by DFG
A federal jury convicted a Louisiana nurse practitioner yesterday for her role in an over $2 million health care fraud scheme.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Shanone Chatman-Ashley, 45, of Opelousas, was a nurse practitioner and enrolled provider with Medicare. Chatman-Ashley worked as an independent contractor for companies that purportedly provided telehealth services to Medicare beneficiaries. As part of the scheme, the defendant caused the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME). Chatman-Ashley routinely ordered knee braces, suspension sleeves, and other types of DME for patients who had not been examined by her or another medical provider. Chatman-Ashley concealed the scheme by signing documentation falsely certifying that she had consulted with the beneficiaries and personally conducted assessments of them. From 2017 to 2019, the defendant signed more than 1,000 orders for medically unnecessary DME, causing over $2 million in fraudulent Medicare claims and over $1 million in reimbursements. In exchange for the orders, Chatman-Ashley received kickbacks and bribes from the telehealth services companies.
“Today, a Louisiana jury convicted Shanone Chatman-Ashley of health care fraud for brazenly cheating Medicare out of its limited resources,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, the Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Dishonest medical practitioners put significant strain on our health care system and reduce the quality of patient care. The Department of Justice will not tolerate medical professionals who fraudulently enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers. I thank the prosecutors and our law enforcement partners who worked tirelessly on this case in the pursuit of justice.”
(Excerpt) Read more at justice.gov ...
HOORAY Justice Dept! Punishment?
Yes, it’s the Amish again.
The unique spelling of the name is highly suggestive.
larceny IN the heart . . . inoperable.
Yep, the usual suspect.
A federal jury convicted Louisiana nurse practitioner Shanone
Chatman-Ashley for her $2 million plus health care fraud scheme.
Do we look?
Didn’t go far enough to see picture..didn’t need to really!
When you find one cockroach, there are always many more out there.
Doggone it I worked for 40 years in full time well paying engineering jobs and could not save $2 million.
Doggone it I worked for 40 years in full time well
paying engineering jobs and could not save $2 million.
I’m on Medicare. During the annual physical paid entirely by Medicare, without reporting symptoms, I get an eye chart test, hearing test, a mental health assessment and a test for dementia. Each test is coded and billed. I also get offers to have someone come to my home to check on how I am doing all for “free.” No wonder we are broke.
Would be interesting to hear what kind of lifestyle she’s been living since 2017.
And will she pay back any of the $2 mil, or just do a “stint” in jail, and therefore “get away with” stealing $2 mil?
Shanone Chatman-Ashley
But then you already knew.
‘Chatman-Ashley was convicted of five counts of health care fraud. She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each count.”
I hope they don’t consider the punishment for those charges to be concurrent.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.