A Cedar Rapids chiropractor will be spending the next seven years behind bars for using the stolen identities of minors in a scheme to bilk Medicaid.
Douglas P. Dvorak, 46, received the prison term Thursday after an April jury verdict found him guilty of 22 counts of mail fraud, 11 counts of aggravated identity theft and six counts of money laundering.
Evidence presented at trial showed that between late 2005 and early 2007, Dvorak defrauded the Medicaid health insurance program by submitting claims for services he never provided. He used the identities of more than 30 under-aged Medicaid beneficiaries in executing the scheme, and engaged in financial transactions with the proceeds that were designed to conceal the location and control of the money. His intention, according to trial evidence, was to defraud Medicaid, a government program designed to help individuals and families with low income access health care, for more than $120,000.
Dvorak was sentenced to 85 months in prison — 37 for the mail fraud and money laundering, and 48 for aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to pay $71,375.82 in restitution to Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, and a special assessment of $3,900. He will serve a three-year period of supervised release after his prison term.