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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practiced at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assortexd assisted living facilities in St. Louis City and St. Louis in April to one felony count of obstruction of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executecd a civil settlement agreement with the United States requirinb her to pay the Medicare program Stafford billed Medicare for numeroux complex foot surgery procedurews provided to 39 local Medicare beneficiarieds when she was really providing thesew patients with only routine foot such as toe nail prosecutors said.
When she was audited by the Medicare program in Medicare denied her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requested that sherepay $6,84o0 for non-covered services that had been previously paid to her. Stafford challengede this and as part of her effortws to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafford createxd new treatment records for thosse 39 patients in 2007, back-datinv them to 2004, using fraudulent treatment informatiom and claiming that she had provided these patientse with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutorss said.
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