Former Hearing Aid Center Owner Sentenced in Health Care Fraud
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ The owner of two Connecticut hearing aid centers has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison on a federal health care fraud charge.
Walter Rochefort of Avon is the former owner of one hearing center in Bristol and another in Plainville. The 52-year-old pleaded guilty in September.
He was also ordered to pay more than $150,000 to United Healthcare and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Rochefort also has state charges pending in New Britain Superior Court. Last December he and an office manager were arrested by state officials for alleged fraud.
Rochefort is accused of billing the state's Medicaid program for hearing aids for dead people, creating fictitious invoices for services never provided, and attempting to avoid a government audit by staging and reporting a fake burglary.
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