A former nurse practitioner in Butte admitted on Thursday to falsely billing an insurance company approximately $61 million for vitamin B-12 injections in which she received nearly $600,000 for the false claims, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said Friday.
The nurse also admitted to prescribing controlled substances despite having a suspended license, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In U.S. District Court in Missoula, the defendant, Tristan Ashley Svejkovsky, 40, pleaded guilty to health care fraud and to use of a registration number issued to another person, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Svejkovsky faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release on the health care fraud charge and a maximum of four years in prison, a $250,000 fine and one year of supervised release on the charge of using the registration of another person.
Svejkovsky was released pending further proceedings. Sentencing was set for Dec. 12.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office described the case as follows:
The government alleged in court documents that Svejkovsky was a nurse practitioner whose license was suspended by the Montana Board of Nursing on April 1, 2022. Svejkovsky continued to prescribe controlled substances using her own name and Drug Enforcement Administration registration number until June 8, 2022.
The DEA contacted Svejkovsky through her attorney, and she agreed to voluntarily surrender her DEA registration. However, Svejkovsky...
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