Another Conspirator Sentenced in Injection-Billing Scheme

Thursday, October 25, 2018 | 0

A Florida woman was sentenced to four years in prison and must pay more than $89,000 in restitution for her role in a Kentucky scheme to fraudulently bill insurance carriers for muscle relaxant injections.

Ariel Borrego-Hernandez, of Naples, Florida, was found guilty last month by a federal jury in Kentucky, and U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Jennings sentenced her on Wednesday, according to a bulletin from the U.S. Attorney's office in Louisville.

Borrego-Hernandez was part of a scheme that recruited chiropractors to Louisville clinics for the sole purpose of obtaining their national provider identification information, authorities said.

The conspirators also paid Kentucky boatyard workers to seek unnecessary treatment at the clinics, which billed insurers for more than $5 million in methocarbamol injections, authorities said.

Another Florida conspirator faces sentencing Nov. 29 in the case.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Postal Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Louisville Metro Police Department and the National Insurance Crime Bureau, prosecutors said.