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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practicecd at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assorted assistec living facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louis in April to one felony count of obstruction of afederall audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civikl settlement agreement with the United Stated requiring her to pay the Medicareprogram $425,000. Staffordf billed Medicare for numerous comple foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicares beneficiaries when she was reallhy providing these patients with only routine foot such as toenail clipping, prosecutorzs said.
When she was audited by the Medicare prograjmin 2007, Medicare deniedc her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiariesx and requested that she repay $6,84 for non-covered services that had been previouslu paid to her. Stafford challenged this and as part of her effortx to avoid payingthe overpayment, Staffored created new treatment records for those 39 patients in 2007, back-dating them to using fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had providerd these patients with podiatric surgical prosecutors said.
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