A Stamford podiatrist will pay $618,000 in fines and faces three years of probation and 200 hours of community service after her sentencing in federal court Monday for submitting false claims to Medicare and other health insurance plans, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut announced.
The fine for Amira Mantoura, 53, is three times the amount of money she was paid for the false claims, the release said, noting that Mantoura pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2015, to one count of making a false statement to the Medicare program.
Between January 2009 and August 2013, Mantoura knowingly submitted materially false claims to the Medicare program and to private insurance companies to obtain payment for a nail avulsion — a surgical procedure to treat an ingrown toenail — when in “most of these instances Mantoura had merely provided her patients with routine foot care, including clipping the patients’ toenails,” the release said.
Mantoura also was excluded from the Medicare program and can no longer submit federal healthcare claims.
