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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Marylancd Heights, as well as assorted assisted living facilitiesein St. Louis City and St. Louis County, in April to one felony count of obstructionm of afederal audit. 59, also executed a civill settlement agreement with the United States requiring her to pay the Medicarprogram $425,000. Stafford billed Medicare for numeroua complex foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicarer beneficiaries when she was reall y providing these patients with only routine foot such as toenail clipping, prosecutors When she was audited by the Medicare program in 2007, Medicare denied her claims for reimbursemeny regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requested that she repagy $6,840 for non-covered services that had been previouslu paid to her.
Stafford challenged this and as part of her efforte to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford createc new treatment records for those 39 patientss in 2007, back-dating them to using fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had provided these patients with podiatric surgical prosecutors said.
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