Man given prison sentence, ordered to forfeit $4M for DME scheme
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:20 AM CDT, Tue March 25, 2025
FORT MYERS, Fla. – U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Fernando Espinosa Leon to five years and 10 months in federal prison for health care fraud and aggravated identify theft. He also ordered Espinosa Leon, who owned Global Medical Supply, to forfeit more than $4 million. Espinosa Leon engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare by stealing the personally identifiable information of Medicare beneficiaries and medical practitioners and then fraudulently billing Medicare for DME that he falsely claimed was prescribed and supplied. From June 2020 through September 2020, he used the services of a third-party biller and fraudulently billed more than $7.6 million in claims for reimbursement. As a result, more than $4 million in proceeds were deposited into a bank account that Espinosa Leon managed and controlled. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Dec. 6.
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