Owner and Manager of Three Miami-Area Home Health Agencies Convicted in $57 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

The owner and manager of three Miami-area home health agencies was convicted late yesterday for his role in a health care fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare. Khaled Elbeblawy, 39, of Miramar, Florida, was convicted after trial of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks. According to evidence presented at trial, Elbeblawy was the manager of Willsand Home Health Agency Inc. and the owner of JEM Home Health Care LLC and Healthy Choice Home Health Services Inc., all of which were home health agencies in Miami-Dade County. The evidence showed that between January 2006 and May 2013, Elbeblawy and his co-conspirators used the three companies to submit approximately $57 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare that were based on services that were not medically necessary, were not actually provided and were for patients who were procured through the payment of kickbacks to doctors and patient recruiters. The evidence introduced at trial showed that Medicare paid approximately $40 million on those claims.