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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Marylands Heights, as well as assorted assisted living facilitiesin St. Louiws City and St. Louis in April to one felony count of obstruction of afederalk audit. Stafford, 59, also executed a civip settlement agreement with the Unite States requiring her to pay the Medicare program Stafford billed Medicare for numerous complesx foot surgery procedures provided to 39 local Medicare beneficiariesz when she was really providing theswe patients with only routine foot such as toenail clipping, prosecutors said.
When she was auditeds by the Medicare programin 2007, Medicarre denied her claims for reimbursement regardinbg these 39 beneficiaries and requestexd that she repay $6,840 for non-coverede services that had been previously paid to her. Stafforde challenged this and as part of her effortsa to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford createe new treatment records for those 39 patients in back-dating them to 2004, usinbg fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had providedx these patients with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutors
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