MINNEAPOLIS – An Eden Prairie couple has been charged with defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers of $15 million with false claims for neurofeedback therapy. The criminal charges were filed in federal court against Gabriel Luthor, 39, and Elizabeth Christine Brown, 42. According to the complaint, they operated Golden Victory Medical out of Las Vegas with clinics in Florida, Kansas Nevada and Oklahoma. This was over a period beginning in 2018. The acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota, Lisa Kirkpatrick, said Luthor and Brown submitted hundreds of thousands of false claims to insurers, many of which were paid, for total losses exceeding $15 million. The fraud was discovered because medical billing codes didn’t make sense, she said. Kirkpatrick said that accomplices may be charged also.
Legit therapy?
Neurofeedback therapy is a nonintrusive treatment that uses electrical pulses to shift patient’s brain activity into desired patterns. The concept goes back to 1898. The effectiveness remains debated in medical literature.
Living well
The court documents said that Luthor and Brown lived lavishly: Their 9,000-square-foot home in the southwest Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie had an indoor basketball court, a dry sauna, a four-car garage and eight bathrooms.
Golden Victory Medical advertised itself broadly as offering “high-quality, empathetic, personalized healthcare” and specifically “behavioral health medication management, psychiatric and psychological testing and evaluation, therapy, neurofeedback therapy.” Address: 2870 South Maryland Parkway, Suite 200, jn Las Vegas.