A clinical social worker will serve three months on home confinement and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to health insurance fraud.
While working at a Providence opioid treatment center, Mi Ok Song Bruining cut the length of counseling sessions to fit in more appointments then billed insurance companies for the full 45-minutes.
Officials say Bruining was referred to by co-workers as the “Five Minute Queen” who, at times, substituted a one or two sentence conversation for a billed 45-minute therapy session for her addicted patients Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.
The scheme defrauded health insurers out of more than 3-point-5-million-dollars.
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