The manager of a California medical supply firm has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for a $1 million-plus Medicare scheme.

Los Angeles prosecutors say 45-year-old Petros Odachyan of North Hollywood used forged medical prescriptions to bill Medicare for unneeded electric wheelchairs, hospital beds and other medical equipment, much of it never provided to patients.

Odachyan, the manager of Tujunga-based RL Medical Supply, was sentenced Monday to 51 months in prison.

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A Mcallen urologist and his wife were indicted on charges they billed Medicaid and Medicare for services performed by unlicensed assistants or not at all, federal prosecutors said Friday.   Dr. Hossein Lahiji, was arrested Thursday at Bush International Airport in Houston after arriving on a flight from Tehran, Iran.  His wife Najmeh Vahid Lahiji of San Antonio turned herself in Friday,

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They reported a doctor’s practice to the Texas Medical Board.  A west Texas physician has been charged with misusing official information to retaliate against two nurses who accused him of imporper medical practices and reported him to the state medical board.  The charge against Dr. Rolando Arafiles is the same one he leveled against the two nurses at  Winkler County hospital in Kermit Texas..

Authorities allege Arafiles believed the charges filed against Vickilyn Galle and Anne Mitchell would thwart the investigation of their complaints against him, according to an affidavit signed by an attorney general’s investigator in support of the arrest warrant.

Arafiles was arrested Tuesday night in Odessa Tuesday night in Odessa on single counts of misusing official information and retaliation both third degree felonies.  He was booked into the county jail in Kermit and freed on his own recognizance.   The Texas Medical Board filed a complaint in June that accused Arafiles of over billing patients, prescribing notherapeutic treatments, intimidating witnesses and using poor medical judgement and poor decision making. 

The are serious charges and Dr. Arafiles should call me immediately.  A proactive, & aggressive criminal defense of these charges is the only way to win not only the battle in court, but the court of public opinion.

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