A nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty in Boston federal court for her role in a $7.8 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary medical equipment, including back and knee braces.
Between December 2018 and April 2020, Daphne Jenkins worked with a telemedicine company to sign orders for unnecessary equipment, according to a Nov. 27 news release from the Justice Department.
The signed orders were based on telemarketing calls to Medicare beneficiaries who Ms. Jenkins never had any contact nor medical relationship with. The telemarketing company would then sell the orders to suppliers and laboratories, which would submit the claims to Medicare.
She pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and is scheduled for sentencing April 10.