Man Gets Year in Prison for Medicare Fraud
The owner of a Granada Hills medical equipment company was sentenced Monday to a year in prison and ordered to pay $38,000 restitution for defrauding the Medicare system, federal officials said.
In 1998, Andrew Mazor, 36, owner of Countrywide Health Care, met with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a medical clinic operator and showed him numerous ways to defraud the Medicare program. Included were adding unnecessary items to medical orders and changing diagnoses to make them eligible for Medicare, according to an Internal Revenue Service statement.
Mazor pleaded guilty to fraud and money-laundering charges in U.S. District Court in August.
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