HENDERSON (KTNV) — A Henderson doctor has been indicted and is facing charges related to a $95 million Medicare fraud investigation.
According to a grand jury indictment, Dr. Stephen Dubin owned, controlled, and operated Dubin Medical Consultants (DMC), also known as Wound MD. He was an enrolled Medicare provider and submitted claims to Medicare for payment.
You can read the full indictment below.
Those claims included expensive amniotic membrane allografts — bioengineered skin substitutes that are applied to open, chronic wounds to help with wound closure or skin growth.
Medicare reimburses providers for certain allografts provided to Medicare beneficiaries but only if they were medically reasonable or necessary for treatment.
The indictment alleges that between April 2021 and September 2024, Dubin submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for items that were not necessary, ineligible for reimbursement, not provided, and procured through illegal kickbacks and bribes.
Court records read in part that Dubin and others "targeted facilities with elderly populations, such as home health agencies and hospices, to identify Medicare beneficiaries with wounds" and "pressured the nurse practitioners to apply allografts to Medicare beneficiaries without record to medical necessity."
Prosecutors also allege he falsified patient's medical records to make it appear those procedures were necessary and took the money for himself.
According to the indictment, Dubin and others...
HENDERSON (KTNV) — A Henderson doctor has been indicted and is facing charges related to a $95 million Medicare fraud investigation. According to a grand jury indictment, Dr. Stephen Dubin owned, ...