A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, owner of HealthSplash, Inc., for his role in a Medicare fraud conspiracy involving more than $1 billion in fraudulent claims.
According to the Department of Justice, Blackman operated through HealthSplash and Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC, also known as DMERx, an internet-based platform used to generate doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment and prescriptions.
The DOJ said those orders falsely claimed that physicians had examined and treated Medicare beneficiaries, while in reality doctors were allegedly paid to sign paperwork with little or no meaningful patient interaction.
As part of this fraud scheme, the DOJ described a broader fraud pipeline involving marketers, foreign call centers, telemedicine companies, pharmacies, durable medical equipment suppliers, and paid doctors.
Medicare beneficiaries were pushed toward unnecessary orthotic braces and other items, while the paperwork moved through DMERx so suppliers could bill Medicare and other federal health care programs.
DOJ said suppliers and pharmacies submitted more than $1 billion in claims, with Medicare and other insurers paying more than $450 million.
Blackman was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Why This Matters
This case shows how federal health care fraud can hide behind clean paperwork, corporate layers, software systems, and technical compliance language.
A signed doctor’s order does not always mean a real medical exam happened, and a billing record does not always mean the service was necessary.
For Find Corporate Waste, the lesson is clear: taxpayer money often moves through systems that look legitimate until the relationships, incentives, and eligibility rules are examined more closely. Health care fraud is not always obvious from the surface. It may require connecting billing records, ownership structures, provider relationships, exclusion data, and government payment databases.
If you have seen suspicious billing, questionable federal payments, corporate abuse, or government money flowing to entities that may not have followed the rules, Find Corporate Waste wants to hear from you.
Tips, documents, and public records can help expose fraud, recover taxpayer money, and hold bad actors accountable.
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