Ventura County Doctor Pleads Guilty To Medicare Fraud

Wednesday July 24, 2024

     The U-S Attorneys Office in Los Angeles says that a Ventura County doctor has pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud.

     They say that Dr. Victor Contreras of Santa Paula pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud.

     The authorities say that from July 2016 to February 2019 the 68-year-old Contreras and a co-defendant, 61-year-old Juanita Antenor, formerly of Pasadena, submitted nearly $4 million in false and fraudulent claims for hospice services submitted by two hospice companies.

     Contreras faces a statutory maximum sentence of ten years in federal prison when he is sentenced in October.

     Antenor remains at large and a third defendant has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go on trial in October.