加州男子以虚假临终关怀机构诈骗联邦医保逾1700万美元：判刑12年
美国司法部2025年5月6日宣布，居住在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县 Granada Hills 的44岁男子 Petros Fichidzhyan，因多年操纵虚假临终关怀机构与一家居家护理公司、向联邦医疗保险（Medicare）诈骗逾1700万美元，被判处12年监禁与3年监管释放。
根据法庭文件，Fichidzhyan 与同伙向 Medicare 申报从未提供、也无医疗必要的临终关怀服务。他们实际控制多家临终关怀实体，并盗用外国公民的个人身份信息来掩盖骗局，用这些信息开设银行账户、向 Medicare 提交材料、签署物业租约。他们还盗用数名医生的姓名与身份信息为虚假服务开账单，其中两名医生已经去世。
Medicare 向这些虚假机构支付了近1600万美元，其中近700万美元落入 Fichidzhyan 手中，逾530万美元经十余个空壳与第三方银行账户洗白。他经营的居家护理公司另骗得逾100万美元虚假赔付，该公司盗用一名医生的名义冒充其为受益人做居家护理认证；当这名医生当面对质时，Fichidzhyan 付给对方1.1万美元试图掩盖。
Fichidzhyan 已于2025年2月承认医疗保健欺诈、加重身份盗窃与洗钱三项罪名。法庭除判刑外，还责令他赔偿17,129,060美元，并初步下令没收一处以诈骗所得购置的房产；政府已从涉案银行账户查扣2,920,383美元。司法部表示，这一判决是其持续打击大洛杉矶地区临终关怀欺诈的最新一步。
司法部刑事司负责人 Matthew R. Galeotti 说，被告「多年来与他人合谋经营多套虚假临终关怀与居家护理骗局，向 Medicare 虚报逾1700万美元」，手法靠层层欺骗与复杂的洗钱安排，浪费了数以百万计的纳税人资金。联邦调查局洛杉矶外勤办公室助理主任 Akil Davis 说，Fichidzhyan 是「以美国纳税人为代价中饱私囊」。
本案由联邦调查局与卫生与公众服务部监察长办公室调查，司法部刑事司欺诈科的审判律师 Eric C. Schmale 与 Sarah E. Edwards 负责起诉。（来源：美国司法部）
California Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Defrauding Medicare of More Than $17 Million Through Sham Hospices
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 6, 2025, that Petros Fichidzhyan, 44, of Granada Hills, in Los Angeles County, California, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a years-long scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $17 million through sham hospice companies and his home health care company.
According to court documents, Fichidzhyan schemed with others to bill Medicare for hospice services that were not medically necessary and never provided. He and his co-schemers controlled hospice entities and used foreign nationals' personal identifying information to conceal the scheme, using it to open bank accounts, submit information to Medicare and sign property leases. They also misappropriated the names and identifying information of several doctors, two of whom were deceased, to fraudulently bill Medicare for purported hospice services.
Medicare paid the sham hospices nearly $16 million, of which Fichidzhyan received nearly $7 million, with more than $5.3 million laundered through a dozen shell and third-party bank accounts. His home health care agency separately obtained more than $1 million in false claims, fraudulently using a doctor's name and identifying information as having certified Medicare beneficiaries for home health care; when the doctor confronted him about the fraud, Fichidzhyan attempted to cover up the scheme by paying the doctor $11,000.
Fichidzhyan pleaded guilty in February 2025 to health care fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. At sentencing he was also ordered to pay $17,129,060 in restitution, and the court preliminarily ordered the forfeiture of a home bought with fraudulent proceeds; the government has seized $2,920,383 from bank accounts associated with the fraud. The Justice Department said the sentence was the most recent step in its ongoing effort to combat hospice fraud in the greater Los Angeles area.
"For years, the defendant, working with others, ran multiple sham hospice and home health care schemes, fraudulently billing Medicare over $17 million," said Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, calling the scheme one that "relied on layers of deception and sophisticated money laundering, and wasted millions in taxpayer money." Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said Fichidzhyan "lined his pockets at the expense of the American taxpayer."
The FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General investigated the case, and Trial Attorneys Eric C. Schmale and Sarah E. Edwards of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section are prosecuting it. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿的美国卫生与公众服务部总部休伯特·汉弗莱大楼（资料图）。本案由该部监察长办公室与联邦调查局共同调查。ajay_suresh 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, D.C. (file photo). The department's Office of Inspector General investigated this case with the FBI. ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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