Leonard Langman, MD, a neurologist who owned and operated a Brooklyn, N.Y., medical clinic pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare; the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP); the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (NYS-WCB); the New York State Insurance Fund (SIF) and various private health insurance carriers, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Langman pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto in Brooklyn to one count of healthcare fraud.
According to court documents, from January 2006 to December 2009, Langman caused false and fraudulent claims to be submitted to Medicare, OWCP, NYC-WCB, SIF and others. Langman submitted claims for services that were not provided; misrepresented the services he provided by billing for a level of service higher than that which he performed; double-billed different healthcare benefit programs for the same service provided to the same beneficiary; and billed for services purportedly performed when he was out of the country.
At sentencing, scheduled for Dec. 2, 2011, Langman faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch for the Eastern District of New York and Special Agent-in-Charge Thomas O’Donnell of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG).