Murfreesboro Ambulance Service Data Breach (2008)

According to the evidence presented at trial and the indictment, from approximately 1996 through September 2008, the Medlocks conspired and engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by submitting claims for payment for the transportation of patients who were not qualified to receive ambulance transportation. Evidence at trial showed that the Medlocks submitted or caused to be submitted, through Murfreesboro Ambulance Service, fraudulent claims totaling more than $1,600,000, to Medicare and Medicaid for reimbursement of ambulance transports of patients to and from dialysis treatments.