A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted a Michigan nurse and home health care agency owner yesterday for operating a $1.6 million scheme to defraud Medicare, according to Dissent reporting. The defendant, Ruby Scott, 55, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, owned and operated Delta Home Health Care LLC, and from 2018 through 2021 she bribed a discharge nurse at a Detroit hospital to identify Medicare patients and fax their confidential records to Delta, unbeknownst to the patients.
She offered the nurse an additional $100 per patient to refer patients to her company and paid the nurse over $130,000 by CashApp, PayPal, check and cash, as the article notes. Scott used these stolen profiles to bill Medicare for home health services, exploiting the diagnostic and personal information of patients who were unaware their data had been compromised, according to Townhall. The piece was published on 16 May 2026.