A radiologic technologist (RT) was sentenced to a year in federal prison for healthcare fraud after allowing an unlicensed individual to acquire imaging exams and then providing authorities with falsified documentation on who performed the exams.
Robert Moyer, owner of Mobile Medical Resources, received one year in prison and was ordered to pay $112,000 in restitution. He must serve at least 85% of his sentence, according to federal law.
Court documents indicate that from June 2010 to December 2011, Moyer knowingly allowed an unlicensed person to administer x-ray studies to patients from Kentucky and Ohio, according to authorities. He then submitted false documentation to conceal who performed the exams.
Federal law requires that licensed professionals must administer studies to receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Some of the x-rays had to be performed again because they were of such poor quality, according to Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.
