The owner of a Fountain Valley outpatient rehabilitation facility pleaded guilty today to mail fraud for submitting Medicare claims not prescribed by treating physicians.
Tuan Duc Tran, 53, of Westminster, faces up to 20 years in federal prison. He was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 8.
Tran owned and operated Fountain Valley Healthcare Center. Tran submitted bills to Medicare based on false claims that the beneficiaries had been referred to the center for physical and respiratory therapy, but the treating physicians had not referred the beneficiaries for rehabilitation, according to federal prosecutors.
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Tran agreed in the plea deal to pay $777,291 in restitution to Medicare.
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