Fraud-ian Slip: Brooklyn therapist busted for phony billing
A Brooklyn therapist was among eight mental healthcare providers charged with massive Medicaid fraud in federal court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday.
Brooklyn resident Lyubov Beylina, 30, is charged with defrauding Medicaid and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for more than $600,000 by submitting false bills. Allegedly, she submitted approximately 51 fraudulent invoices for EIP therapy sessions while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.
Beylina and seven other therapists from Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and New Jersey worked with the New York State Early Intervention Program, which provides remedial services to developmentally delayed children from birth to age three.