The owners of three Fort Bend County hospices and another woman defrauded the U.S. government out of $87 million by billing Medicare and Medicaid for end-of-life care for patients who weren’t dying, according to the Justice Department.
The women — Dera Ogudo, Victoria Martinez and Evelyn Shaw — last week were indicted on charges of health care fraud and conspiracy.
The women are accused of devising a years-long scheme that earned them between hundreds of thousands and tens of millions of dollars in profits, according to the Justice Department…