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Dr. Bic Chau Stafford, who practice d at the in Maryland Heights, as well as assorted assistexd living facilitiesin St. Louis City and St. Louis in April to one felony count of obstructio of afederal audit. Stafford, 59, also executedc a civil settlement agreement with the Unitex States requiring her to pay the Medicare program Stafford billed Medicare for numerous complex foot surgert procedures provided to 39 local Medicare beneficiaried when she was really providing these patients with only routinsefoot care, such as toe nail clipping, prosecutords said.
When she was audited by the Medicare prograin 2007, Medicare denied her claims for reimbursement regarding these 39 beneficiaries and requested that she repay $6,840o for non-covered services that had been previously paid to her. Stafforfd challenged this and as part of her effort to avoid payingthe overpayment, Stafforcd created new treatment records for those 39 patient in 2007, back-dating them to 2004, usingg fraudulent treatment information and claiming that she had provided these patients with podiatric surgical procedure, prosecutors said.