Former Franklin psychiatrist gets year and day in prison for $1.9M Medicare fraud scheme
Oct 14, 2026 at 04:53 am
CONCORD – A former Franklin physician was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 months and a day in federal prison on one count of health care fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing medical equipment without ever seeing, speaking to, or otherwise examining patients.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Steven Powell, 56, a licensed psychiatrist who now lives in Georgia, signed hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for durable medical...
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