United States v. William P. Catena, M.D.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, a physician, was tried to a jury and convicted of ten counts of an indictment for fraudulently submitting false Medicare claims for payment. We affirm.

Each count of the indictment upon which the defendant was convicted was in the following form:

On or about [date], at Carnegie, in the County of Allegheny, in the Western District of Pennsylvania, defendant William P. Catena, M.D., presented and caused to be presented to an agency of the United States under the Health Insurance for the Aged Act, a claim against the United States for…