Federal prosecutors say a Gurnee doctor has been charged for prescribing opioids to patients without a medical visit and then fraudulently billing Medicare for the non-existent treatment. Eliza Diaconescu, 73, of Lake Forest, is charged with one count of health care fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. The […]
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Lake Zurich man, who was a healthcare company CEO, sentenced to year in prison for defrauding Medicare of $1.2 million
A Lake Zurich resident, who was the CEO of a healthcare company, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for defrauding Medicare out of $1.2 million in a scheme, prosecutors said. Henry Smilie, 61, of Lake Zurich, pleaded guilty to federal health care fraud. Federal prosecutors said Smilie was the owner and chief […]