CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. A former owner and operator of Selectcare Health, Inc., a provider of outpatient physical and respiratory therapy located in Park Ridge and Skokie, was sentenced to federal prison for engaging in a $2.5 million health care fraud scheme. Ankur Roy, 38, of Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced last Friday to 75 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervision after his release by U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman. Roy was also ordered to forfeit more than $2.5 million in proceeds he and his codefendants gained by defrauding Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. Roy was ordered to surrender to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on July 15, 2015. Roy was charged in 2013 with two co-defendants who both pled guilty; Dipen Desai, who was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment in December 2014, and Akash Patel, who is scheduled to be sentenced in July. Roy was convicted of five counts of the indictment by a jury in July 2014.
