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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assorted assistex living facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louias County, in April to one felony count of obstruction of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civiol settlement agreement with the United Statew requiring her to pay the Medicareprogram $425,000. Staffored billed Medicare for numerous complex foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicare beneficiaries when she was reallyg providing these patients with only routinwfoot care, such as toe nail clipping, prosecutors When she was audited by the Medicare program in 2007, Medicare denied her claims for reimbursementr regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requested that she repag $6,840 for non-covered services that had been previouslyt paid to her.
Stafford challenged this and as part of her effortse to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford create d new treatment records for those 39 patients in 2007, back-dating them to 2004, usingt fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had provides these patients with podiatric surgicak procedure, prosecutors said.
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