UPDATE:
A Cumberland County doctor faces charges Friday night, accused of lying about how much time he spent with patients to inflate the insurance claims.
CBS 21 News has discovered this is not the first time he's been in trouble with the law..
43-year-old Timothy Clark is a pulmonologist and the owner of the Central Pennsylvania Pulmonary Associates and Sleep Disorder Center of Central PA.
He is charged with fraudulent claims exceeding $500,000 and is also charged with six counts of money laundering.
That money includes about $103,000 that was allegedly fraudulent money transferred into payroll and money market accounts.
According to the federal grand jury indictment, Dr. Clark allegedly inflated the amount of time healthcare providers he employed spent with each patient, thus inflating the insurance claim.
Also, this is not the first indictment against Clark. In June he was charged with embezzling funds from his employee’s pension fund. That case is still pending in federal court.
If convicted, Clark faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, plus repayment of funds
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The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District
of Pennsylvania announced that a Mechanicsburg doctor who owns
two Central Pennsylvania medical facilities was indicted Thursday
by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of healthcare
fraud and money laundering.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Dr.
Timothy Clark, age 43, is a medical doctor and pulmonologist and
sole owner of The Central Pennsylvania Pulmonary Associates(CPPA)
and Sleep Disorder Centers of Central Pennsylvania.
The Indictment alleges that from December 2007 through
September 26, 2008, Dr. Clark, who provided critical care
services to patients of Holy Spirit Hospital, intentionally
inflated the amount of time the healthcare providers he employed
spent with each patient, thereby fraudulently inflating the
health insurance claims Clark submitted to Medicare, Highmark,
Inc., and Capital Blue Cross. The dollar amount of the
fraudulent claims allegedly exceeded $500,000. In the
indictment’s six money laundering counts Clark is charged with
allegedly transferring approximately $103,000 obtained through
the healthcare fraud to CPPA payroll and money market accounts.
“Doctors, like other health providers, are expected to bill
Medicare honestly for their services”, said Nick DiGiulio,
Special Agent in Charge for the Inspector General’s Office of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We will continue
to energetically investigate allegations of fraud against our
health insurance programs”.
A Cumberland County doctor faces charges Friday night, accused of lying about how much time he spent with patients to inflate the insurance claims.
CBS 21 News has discovered this is not the first time he's been in trouble with the law..
43-year-old Timothy Clark is a pulmonologist and the owner of the Central Pennsylvania Pulmonary Associates and Sleep Disorder Center of Central PA.
He is charged with fraudulent claims exceeding $500,000 and is also charged with six counts of money laundering.
That money includes about $103,000 that was allegedly fraudulent money transferred into payroll and money market accounts.
According to the federal grand jury indictment, Dr. Clark allegedly inflated the amount of time healthcare providers he employed spent with each patient, thus inflating the insurance claim.
Also, this is not the first indictment against Clark. In June he was charged with embezzling funds from his employee’s pension fund. That case is still pending in federal court.
If convicted, Clark faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, plus repayment of funds
___________________________________________
The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District
of Pennsylvania announced that a Mechanicsburg doctor who owns
two Central Pennsylvania medical facilities was indicted Thursday
by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of healthcare
fraud and money laundering.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Dr.
Timothy Clark, age 43, is a medical doctor and pulmonologist and
sole owner of The Central Pennsylvania Pulmonary Associates(CPPA)
and Sleep Disorder Centers of Central Pennsylvania.
The Indictment alleges that from December 2007 through
September 26, 2008, Dr. Clark, who provided critical care
services to patients of Holy Spirit Hospital, intentionally
inflated the amount of time the healthcare providers he employed
spent with each patient, thereby fraudulently inflating the
health insurance claims Clark submitted to Medicare, Highmark,
Inc., and Capital Blue Cross. The dollar amount of the
fraudulent claims allegedly exceeded $500,000. In the
indictment’s six money laundering counts Clark is charged with
allegedly transferring approximately $103,000 obtained through
the healthcare fraud to CPPA payroll and money market accounts.
“Doctors, like other health providers, are expected to bill
Medicare honestly for their services”, said Nick DiGiulio,
Special Agent in Charge for the Inspector General’s Office of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We will continue
to energetically investigate allegations of fraud against our
health insurance programs”.