United States v. Jones, et al., No. 11-60159 (5th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseThis appeal arose out of the trial of Telandra Jones, Theddis Pearson, and five other defendants for Medicare fraud and related crimes stemming from the practices of their business, Statewide Physical Medicine Group. Defendants used unauthorized personnel to perform physical rehabilitation on Medicare patients and then billed Medicare at an inflated rate for those treatments. Because the court found that the verdict form used by the district court lowered the level of mens rea required to convict Pearson of health care false statements, the court reversed his convictions on those counts. On all other claims raised by defendants, the court found no reversible error and therefore affirmed Jones' and Pearson's convictions for theft of government funds and money laundering.
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