Two plead guilty in health care fraud case

Pair arrested in crackdown on patient brokering

Two Palm Beach County owners of a substance abuse treatment center pleaded guilty Friday for their participation in a multimillion dollar health care fraud that involved money laundering, filing fraudulent health insurance claims and defrauding health care benefit programs.

Tovah Lynn Jasperson, 48, of Wellington, could face up to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, federal authorities said.

Alan Martin Bostom, 75, also of Wellington, faces up to five years after admitting guilt to one count of making false statements related to a health care matter, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

They will be sentenced on May 10, federal officials said.

The pair ran Angel’s Recovery, which was licensed as a substance abuse treatment center for multiple locations throughout the county. It served people recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, as well as medication-based treatment for opioid addiction.

According to the Justice De-

partment, the pair arranged for illegal kickbacks to owners of sober homes who referred their insured residents to Angel’s Recovery for treatment.

One sober home operator in Delray Beach received $700,000, another operator with two sober homes in Boynton Beach received $150,000, the Justice Department said.

Angel’s Recovery also hired a medical director who was the subject of a state Board of Medicine proceeding. After his license was suspended, he was still signing prescriptions and statements attesting to the medical necessity of treatments, even though he had not examined the patients, according the U.S. Justice Department.

The two were arrested in October as part of a crackdown on illegal patient brokering that has netted dozens of sober home operators and treatment center owners.