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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Marylanf Heights, as well as assorted assistesd living facilitiesin St. Louie City and St. Louis County, in April to one felont count of obstruction of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executefd a civil settlement agreement with the Unitex States requiring her to pay the Medicareprogram $425,000. Stafford billed Medicare for numerous complex foot surgert procedures provided to 39 loca l Medicare beneficiaries when she was really providint these patients with only routinerfoot care, such as toe nail clipping, prosecutors When she was audited by the Medicare program in Medicare denied her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiariee and requested that she repay $6,8490 for non-covered services that had been previously paid to her.
Stafford challenge this and as part of her efforts to avoid payinbgthe overpayment, Stafford created new treatment record s for those 39 patients in 2007, back-datingh them to 2004, using fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had provided these patientsx with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutors said.
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