Kansas CEO Masterminds $1,000,000,0000 Medicare Fraud, Sentenced to 19 Years Behind Bars
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Federal prosecutors have secured a 19-year prison sentence against a Kansas businessman who operated an online platform that generated false medical orders to defraud Medicare. Brett Blackman, 43, of Johnson County, Kansas, was convicted after a 23-day trial on charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, and conspiracy to defraud the United States and to make false statements in connection with health care matters, says the U.S. Department of Justice. Blackman owned HealthSplash, which acquired the DMERx platform in 2017, and his co-defendant Gary Cox was sentenced to 15 years in December 2025.
Source: The Daily Hodl
