Iowa U.S. Attorney: Iowa Nurse Practitioner Agrees to Pay Over $50,000 to Resolve Suit Alleging Fraudulent Durable Medical Equipment Prescriptions, Kickbacks
April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release:
Ashley Brown, DNP, ARNP, from Des Moines, Iowa, has agreed to pay $52,560 to the United States to resolve allegations that she violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. Sec. 3729, by signing hundreds of medically unnecessary prescriptions for expensive orthotic braces in exchange for kickback payments of $20 per patient. The full claims against Brown ar . . .
Ashley Brown, DNP, ARNP, from Des Moines, Iowa, has agreed to pay $52,560 to the United States to resolve allegations that she violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. Sec. 3729, by signing hundreds of medically unnecessary prescriptions for expensive orthotic braces in exchange for kickback payments of $20 per patient. The full claims against Brown ar . . .