{"id":352859,"date":"2026-07-26T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352859\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:53:18","slug":"florida-ceo-convicted-in-3m-medicare-fraud-scheme-tied-to-hayward-home-health-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352859\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida CEO convicted in $3M Medicare fraud scheme tied to Hayward home health agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal jury has convicted a CEO from Florida of conspiring to defraud Medicare through a Hayward home health agency, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of California said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon Katz, 43, of Boca Raton, was found guilty Wednesday of conspiracy to commit health care fraud following a six-day trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors said Katz conspired with his wife, Veronica Katz, the former CEO of HealthNow Home Healthcare in Hayward, and two former employees to defraud Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal jury has convicted a CEO from Florida of conspiring to defraud Medicare through a Hayward home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144250,3362,1107,265,2362,589,41709,32791,28,30,29,1387,144251,6584,90875,7931,12231,144252,32279],"class_list":["post-352859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alameda-county","tag-conspiracy","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-fbi","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-federal-court","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fraud","tag-hayward","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-fraud","tag-healthcare","tag-medicare","tag-northern-district-of-california","tag-u-s-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}