Ijewere pleaded guilty April 12 to health care fraud.
As the owner of Maydads Medical Supply, Ijewere admitted that from June 2007 to October 2009, he conspired with others to purchase fraudulent prescriptions and medical documents, which he used to submit false claims to Medicare for expensive, high-end power wheelchairs and other medical equipment.
Maydads Medical Supply Company is in the Los Angeles area, but the Medicare patients, whom Ijewere claimed his company supplied power wheelchairs to, live more than 100 miles away in central and northern California.
As a result of his scheme, Ijewere admitted he submitted to Medicare about $471,345 in false and fraudulent claims.
Ijewere's co-conspirator, Donna Wells, a patient recruiter, was charged for her role and her trial is set to begin Nov. 9.
The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Since its inception in March 2007, Strike Force operations in seven districts have obtained indictments of more than 810 individuals who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $1.85 billion.
