WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
CONCORD - Former New Hampshire physician Steven Powell, 56, was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison on one count of health care fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing medical equipment without ever seeing, speaking to, or otherwise examining patients.
Powell, who now lives in Georgia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro. According to court documents and statements made in court, Powell, a licensed psychiatrist, signed hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for durable medical equipment (DME), including knee, wrist, back, a...