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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assorted assisted livin g facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louix County, in April to one felony count of obstructionj of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civil settlement agreement with the Unitede States requiring her to pay the Medicarewprogram $425,000. Stafford billed Medicare for numerous complex foot surgery procedures providec to 39 local Medicare beneficiaries when she was reallyg providing these patients with only routinwefoot care, such as toe nail prosecutors said.
When she was audited by the Medicared programin 2007, Medicares denied her claims for reimbursement regardingb these 39 beneficiaries and requested that she repay $6,840 for non-coverecd services that had been previously paid to her. Stafford challenge this and as part of her efforts to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford created new treatmenty records for those 39 patient s in 2007, back-dating them to using fraudulent treatment information and claimint that she had provided these patients with podiatricf surgical procedure, prosecutors said.
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