Local Chiropractor Indicted in Alleged Family Insurance Scheme

A Wheeling-based chiropractor who resides in Northbrook has been indicted on accusations he and two close family members conducted a scheme to bilk insurance carriers out of more than $10.8 million over a six-year period.

Dr. Vladimir Gordin Jr., 45, of Northbrook, and Vladimir Gordin Sr., 68, of Riverwoods, are each charged with 18 counts of health care fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft and Alexsander Gordin (Vladimir’s brother), 32, of Northbrook, is charged with 14 counts of health care fraud, according to charges announced Friday by Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. The three are accused of billing insurance carriers for treatment that was medically unnecessary or never performed.

According to the indictment, the three operated Gordin Medical Center S.C. at 350 E. Dundee Road in Wheeling and “sed the company to falsely bill for medical services that weren’t provided, and fabricated their patients’ medical records to cover up the scam.”

In some cases, patients knew of the overbilling and were incentivized to participate by having their deductibles met at no cost to them or by sharing in a portion of the overbilling proceeds via checks provided to them by the Gordins, according to the indictment.

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Also charged in the indictment were two Vernon Hills residents, Alina Levit and Michelle Kobran, who allegedly participated in the scheme. Levit served as office manager for Gordin’s and Kobran owned and operated Ultrasound Mobile Service Ltd. in Vernon Hills.

Levit, 45, of Vernon Hills, assisted the Gordins with falsifying medical records and creating phony “sign in” sheets, which falsely represented that patients were physically present and received certain health-care services on a given day, when, in fact, no such treatment was rendered, according to the indictment. Levit is charged with 14 counts of health care fraud.

Kobran, 67, of Vernon Hills, billed insurance companies for medically unnecessary ultrasounds that were performed on patients referred to her company by the Gordins, according to the indictment. Kobran then kicked back a portion of the insurance proceeds to the Gordins, the indictment states. Kobran is charged with four counts of health care fraud.

From 2006 through approximately November 2012, Gordin Medical Center and Ultrasound Mobile Service submitted bills totaling $28,775,000, causing the carriers to pay $10,847,000, the indictment states.

The health care fraud counts carry a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while the aggravated identity theft counts are punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and a statutory mandatory minimum sentence of two years, plus a $250,000 fine.