New York doctor charged over $6.8M Medicare telemedicine braces fraud
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The DOJ's new Fraud Division has indicted a New York physician in the Southern District of Florida over a telemedicine orthotic brace scheme. The case sits alongside the recent 20-year sentence of the TelevisitMD operator who routed the prescriptions, and shows how the Department is building out cases against the clinicians who signed off the orders.
- Dr Edgard Salazar is charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud, each carrying up to 10 years in prison.
- Prosecutors allege he signed pre-filled orthotic brace prescriptions via TelevisitMD without examining beneficiaries and billed for consultations he never performed, totalling over $6.8 million in false claims.
- TelevisitMD owner Christopher Harwood pleaded guilty in March 2026, was sentenced last month to 20 years, and agreed to pay $17.9 million in restitution.
- The case was brought by the DOJ's National Fraud Enforcement Division, created on April 7, 2026, and investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG.
Executive summary
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment on Tuesday charging Dr Edgard Salazar, 57, of Armonk, New York, with conspiring to bill Medicare for consultations that never occurred and for orthotic braces that Medicare…
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-doctor-charged-68m-medicare-fraud-schemeRead by Regulus 13 Nov 2026 at 00:07 UTC
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