The sentencing for Heather Stelling, a Joplin physician who pleaded guilty in December to health care fraud, will be held 9 a.m. September 11 in U. S. District Court in Springfield.
The sentencing was originally scheduled for July 6.
Stelling, owner of Stelling Pain Management, received reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid for work done during a time in which she was suspended from practice for not paying Missouri state taxes.Though the state revenue office later issued her a notice of compliance and indicated her license had been suspended erroneously, Stelling had falsified records to indicate the services she was being reimbursed for did not occur during her suspension. Records of approximately two dozen patients were involved.
Stelling received $146,026 from the fraudulent filings.
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