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Michigan Nurse Convicted in $1.6M Medicare Fraud Scheme Using Stolen Patient Records

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Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

Threat Score
25/100

Date Published: 2026-05-16

Date Updated: 2026-05-16

Author: Dissent

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A Michigan home health agency owner, Ruby Scott, was convicted for running a $1.6 million Medicare fraud scheme (2018–2021) by paying a hospital discharge nurse over $130,000 to illegally obtain and fax confidential Medicare patient records; Scott then used those stolen patient profiles to bill Medicare for home health services without patients' knowledge.

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