Business ProfileforTurning Point Sober Home Corp.

As of June 29, 2022:

Marthe Hippolyte was sentenced  to 30 months in prison for a scheme to solicit and receive illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referring residents of her sober home to a substance abuse treatment center, which billed insurance companies $4.5 million for medically unnecessary drug testing and purported substance abuse treatment provided to those residents.

According to court documents, Hippolyte, 59, of Wellington, owned Turning Point Sober Home Inc. and a related marketing company, through which she operated several sober living residences in Florida to house individuals in a drug- and alcohol-free environment while they received treatment at substance abuse treatment centers. Hippolyte accepted approximately $254,000 in kickbacks and bribes, often disguised as management fees, from Kenneth Chatman, the operator of Reflections Treatment Center (RTC), a treatment center that purported to operate as a licensed substance abuse treatment center. In exchange for the kickbacks and bribes, Hippolyte helped bring in patients from outside Florida who could be referred to RTC and required residents of Turning Point’s sober homes to travel to RTC several times per week to attend purported substance abuse treatment sessions and submit to urine drug testing. For the residents referred to RTC by Hippolyte, Chatman and others billed private insurers $4.5 million for substance abuse and bodily fluid testing that was medically unnecessary, not reimbursable, and not provided as represented.

Hippolyte pleaded guilty on Jan. 25, to one count of conspiracy to violate the Travel Act. Chatman pleaded guilty in 2017 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, and was sentenced to 330 months imprisonment.

LINK: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/sober-home-owner-sentenced-30-months-prison-45-million-kickback-scheme

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As of January 7, 2022:

Feds charge Wellington woman linked to sober home kingpin in health insurance fraud case
She ran five sober homes and is the latest person to be charged in the investigation into Kenny Chatman, now serving a 27-year prison sentence. Nearly five years after notorious sober home operator Kenny Chatman was sentenced to 27 years in prison for using struggling addicts to get rich, a Wellington woman has been charged in connection with his lucrative scheme.

Marthe Hippolyte is accused of working with Chatman to bilk insurance companies out of $1.4 million, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach. The 59-year-old, who operated five Turning Point sober homes in Delray Beach, Parkland and Deerfield Beach, accepted bribes and kickbacks from Chatman to refer insured patients to Reflections, his recovery center in Margate, federal prosecutors said. Chatman then billed the patients' insurers for medically unnecessary and sometimes fraudulent tests. Prosecutors said they found checks in Hippolyte's Turning Point bank accounts that had been signed by Chatman.The "checks represented the payment of illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the referral of residents of the Turning Point sober homes to Reflections," prosecutors wrote.

Hippolyte is charged with conspiracy to violate the travel act, which is punishable by a maximum five-year prison sentence.

LINK: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2022/01/07/wellington-woman-charged-taking-kickbacks-insurance-fraud-case-linked-kenny-chatman/9119284002/