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Vladimir Faerman, a 66-year-old former certified home health aide from Passaic County, was being held on $175,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest this morning on Medicaid fraud charges.
Faerman submitted $87,616 in billing to the program for work he never actually completed on behalf of his Hackensack-based employer Confident Care, acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said this afternoon.
Faerman is charged with 175 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud, second-degree theft by deception and third-degree Medicaid fraud, in a state grand jury indictment returned Wednesday, Hoffman said.
The state Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor said that Faerman submitted bogus records from November 2009 to January 2013, claiming that he visited eight clients at their homes nearly 3,800 times.
Faerman was actually at a Paramus jewelry store at the time, records show.
Faerman’s younger brother, 59-year-old Mikhail Faerman, moved to Belgium in 1978 and went on to worldwide acclaim.
Vladimir Faerman, who was also considered a musical prodigy while in the USSR, moved to the U.S. a year later with his now-deceased parents, ending his musical career.
The case is the latest in a string of state prosecutions of recent or onetime Confident Care Corporation employees.
They include:
Elhan Gurban, 52, of Fort Lee, charged in July with 45 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud and one count each of third-degree Medicaid fraud and third-degree theft by deception. Gurban allegedly caused 1,413 false claims to be submitted to Medicaid, which paid out $64,125;
Naum Lavnevich, 56, of Oakland charged in June with 154 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud, one count of third-degree Medicaid fraud and one count of third-degree theft by deception. Lavenich allegedly caused 178 false claims to be submitted to Medicaid, which paid out $5,614;
Roman Abashkin, 32, of Wayne, charged in July with 24 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud and one count each of third-degree Medicaid fraud and third-degree theft by deception. Abashkin allegedly caused 212 fraudulent claims to be submitted to Medicaid, which paid out $6,664;
Semen Rybalov, 68, of Wayne, charged in July with 15 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud and one count each of third-degree Medicaid fraud and third-degree theft by deception. Rybalov allegedly caused 45 false claims to be submitted to Medicaid, which paid out $2,180;
Anatoli Rountsev, 52, of Totowa, charged in June with 43 counts of second-degree health care claims fraud, one count of third-degree Medicaid fraud and one count of third-degree theft by deception. Rountsev allegedly caused 463 false claims to be submitted to Medicaid, which paid out $12,598.
Deputy Attorney Jordan Mamorsky presented the case to the state grand jury. Detective Kylie Mattis and Analyst B’leia Williams coordinated the investigation.
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