HOUSTON -- A Houston-area businesswoman who led a $2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving power wheelchairs has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced the sentence for 46-year-old Doris Vinitski, who owned Onward Medical Supply.
Vinitski in April 2010 pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. She was sentenced Tuesday.
Investigators say Onward in 2003 began billing Medicare for medical equipment that patients did not need or never received. Vinitski said she paid kickbacks, as much as $1,000 per patient, to recruiters who then led the potential customers to Onward.
Her estranged husband, John Lachman, last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and was sentenced to more than two years in prison.
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