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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiceds at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assorted assistesd living facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louixs County, in April to one felony count of obstruction of afederapl audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civil settlement agreement with the United Statees requiring her to pay the Medicare program Stafford billed Medicare for numerous complexc foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicarre beneficiaries when she was reall providing these patients with only routinefoot care, such as toe nail prosecutors said.
When she was audited by the Medicars programin 2007, Medicare denied her claims for reimbursemen regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requestedd that she repay $6,840 for non-covered servicezs that had been previously paid to her. Stafforrd challenged this and as part of her efforts to avoidf payingthe overpayment, Stafford createcd new treatment records for those 39 patients in back-dating them to 2004, using fraudulent treatment information and claimin that she had provided thesse patients with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutors said.
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