Kittery Respiratory Therapist and Business Plead Guilty to Health Care Fraud Offenses

PORTLAND, ME—United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Seacoast Sleep Solutions, LLC, and its president, Peter Enzinger, of Kittery, each pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to committing health care fraud.

Court records revealed that between 2005 and August 2010, Seacoast and Enzinger developed and executed a scheme to defraud public and private insurance carriers of about $220,000 by billing the carriers for products not delivered to patients and for more expensive products than those actually delivered and by continuing to bill the carriers for equipment already returned by patients.

Enzinger faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Seacoast faces up to five years’ probation and a maximum fine of $500,000. They will have to pay full restitution to the victims. They will be sentenced after completion of a pre-sentence investigation report by the United States Probation Office.

In July 2011, Enzinger was convicted by a federal jury of making false statements on a loan application submitted to the United States Small Business Administration on behalf of Seacoast. Enzinger is awaiting sentencing on that charge.

This case was investigated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.