Doctor Pleads Guilty

      From a press release:

Defendant Americo Oms-Rivera plead guilty before United States District Judge Francisco A. Besosa to conspiracy to commit wire fraud ...

The defendant admitted that starting on March 2009, until on or about October of 2015, the defendant and other co-conspirators knowingly and willfully conspired and agreed together and with each other, to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud the SSA, and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises. For example, Oms Rivera would backdate medical records of patients applying for disability insurance benefits by creating fictitious medical appointments that never took place. This was done to create the appearance of a longer history of medical treatment and for the purpose of tricking or deceiving the SSA into approving disability insurance benefits.

As part of the plea agreement, Oms Rivera will pay SSA $321,000 in restitution, and agreed to the forfeiture of a property at Palmas del Mar, Humacao.  In addition, Oms Rivera will surrender his DEA license, and will be excluded from participating in SSA cases, as well as Medicare, Medicaid and all other federal health care programs. ...