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. One of the schemes the 67-year-old Watson was involved in was agreeing to refer patients to home health agency Amity Home Health Care in exchange for illegal kickback payments.
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.
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