A doctor in Oakland is facing up to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of accepting kickbacks for patient referrals, health care fraud, and false statements relating to health care, federal prosecutors said.
A jury convicted Henry Geoffrey Watson of 25 counts of various fraud charges for engaging in three healthcare kickback schemes from 2013 to 2019 while being a licensed medical doctor, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement Wednesday.
Watson also accepted kickback payments from an undercover FBI agent posing as a home health agency representative seeking his agreement to refer his patients to a particular Bay Area home health agency. He was caught on video accepting envelopes of cash, for a total of more than $10,000, at four meetings in 2017.
His third scheme involved a conspiracy between him and others to repeatedly and falsely certify individuals for Medicare-funded home health services that were unnecessary for patients. Prosecutors said Watson and his co-conspirators met elderly residents of Bay Area retirement homes and certified these elderly people as homebound, or that they had a normal inability to leave the home.
The U.S. Attorney's Office asserted that these elderly residents were homebound despite testimonies from these individuals and their regular primary care doctors that they were generally healthy and active, and even engaging in activities such as traveling internationally, shopping, walking stairs, and jogging.
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