Co-owner of medical transport company gets 5 years for fraud

The co-owner of a Chicago-based medical transport company who was convicted of overbilling Medicaid has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $4 million in restitution.

Gregory D. Toran, 68, was convicted of conspiracy and seven counts of mail fraud following a bench trial before Judge Sue Myerscough, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of Illinois.

Toran’s co-defendant, 44-year-old Tina Kimbrough, was previously sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud and making false statements.

Kimbrough and Toran owned IBT Transportation, a non-emergency medical transport company. Prosecutors claimed that between December 2005 and June 2011, IBT overbilled the state’s Medicaid program out of about $4.7 million.

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