Massage therapist faces jail for fraud
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A good massage sure feels therapeutic. But remember: It isn’t a medical service, and you can’t bill for it as physical therapy.
That’s the lesson recently learned by Kawai Ary-Berry, a licensed massage therapist in Lubbock, Texas. She was found guilty of a range of health care fraud offenses, including billing the federal worker’s compensation fund for services never performed, billing for massage services she improperly coded as physical therapy and fraudulently billing the government for “equipment rental” when she had patients sit in a sauna.
Berry now faces 78 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and must pay $1.6 million in restitution.
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