U.S. Attorney responds to nurse practitioner indictment
JACKSON, Tenn. — U.S. Attorney for West Tennessee Ed Stanton released a statement Thursday about the indictment of south Jackson nurse practitioner John Michael Briley. Briley was indicted this week on 147 federal counts. He is charged with stealing a doctor’s identity to authorize home health services through Medicare and TennCare, amounting to more than $330,000. The release says Briley’s indictment is part of a nationwide crackdown on health care fraud. “Briley schemed to defraud the government of health care funding designated for elderly, disabled and underprivileged citizens,” Stanton states in the release. “This combined effort should assure tax payers that those that steal federal health care dollars will be held accountable.”
