Houston Man Gets 30 Years In Prison For Medicare Fraud

Chimaroke Echenwune was found guilty of trying to scam more than $1.3 million from Medicare and Medicaid through an ambulance company he ran with his wife, according to a press release from the Texas attorney general. That company, Diamex EMS, billed mentally handicapped patients for hospital transports that never occurred, sometimes at up to three times the original cost of the service. In some instances, Diamex billed for transport to hospitals when patients were actually being taken to daycare facilities, a destination not covered by Medicare.