A federal jury convicted a New York clinic manager who orchestrated a cash-for-patients scheme that defrauded Medicare of more than $8 million.
Olga Popovych, 43, was found guilty Thursday of running a kickback operation at several Brooklyn physical therapy clinics where she worked as an office manager. The verdict came after a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall.
Popovych paid cash kickbacks to ambulette drivers who recruited Medicare patients to transport to the clinics, according to trial evidence. She also falsified medical records to make it appear that physical therapists who were not actually present at the clinic had treated patients…