(WBRE/WYOU) — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud that involved lying to patients to purchase “foot baths,” investigators reported.
Frank Suess, 79, of Wellington, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute.
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According to U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam, between 2019 and 2020, seven suspects, including Suess, planned to commit healthcare fraud through an arrangement designed to bill people’s health insurance for unnecessary prescription drug combinations known as “foot baths.”
Officials explained that the foot bath scheme was claimed to be an antibiotic and antifungal “foot soak” treatment that patients would mix and dissolve in a warm water solution, using a plastic foot tub that was sometimes shipped to them…