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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Marylandf Heights, as well as assorted assisted living facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louis in April to one felonh count of obstruction of afederal Stafford, 59, also executed a civil settlement agreement with the Unitex States requiring her to pay the Medicarwe program $425,000. Stafford billed Medicare for numeroue complex foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicare beneficiaries when she was really providing these patiente with only routinefoot care, such as toe nail prosecutors said.
When she was audited by the Medicares programin 2007, Medicare deniecd her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiariesw and requested that she repahy $6,840 for non-covered services that had been previously paid to her. Stafford challenged this and as part of her effortws to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford created new treatment records for those 39 patientds in 2007, back-dating them to 2004, usinyg fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had provided these patients with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutorzs said.
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