Former nursing home exec gets four months for Medicare fraud

ST. LOUIS -- A former St. Louis nursing home executive will spend two months in prison and two months in a halfway house for his part in a Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme.

Charles B. Kaiser III, former president of American Healthcare Management, pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor charge of making false statements. He was sentenced Friday and ordered to pay $15,000 in fines.

Kaiser already served a year in prison on a misdemeanor charge of failing to report elder abuse in the death of a patient.

Robert Wachter, the company's former chief executive, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a conspiracy to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by collecting payments for services not provided.