State Crime Reports

Local Physician Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2016.  A suspended physician pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to charges of health care fraud.  CHARLES S. DEHANN, 61, of Belvidere, Ill., pleaded guilty before Judge Frederick J. Kapala to two counts of health care fraud in a scheme to defraud Medicare that included overbilling and billing Medicare for treatment of patients that were already deceased.

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According to the written plea agreement, DeHaan, during the course of the scheme, was…

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