A Eureka chiropractor is facing a hefty sentence after a federal jury found her guilty of large-scale Medicare fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud. Carrie Musselman, 48, was exposed for pocketing over $1.5 million from Medicare and other insurers through deceptive practices. According to a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of Illinois, the verdict came late Friday evening, setting Musselman’s sentencing for June 24, 2025, in Peoria.
During a 13-day trial, the evidence laid out against Musselman painted a picture of deceit where she and her practice misrepresented medical service providers and the services they offered, claiming physicians performed procedures when in reality nurse practitioners or physician’s assistants did, triggering higher insurance payouts, and billing for services like neurostimulator placements and allergy treatments which patients never actually received according to the same press release.
Despite the damning verdict, Musselman remains out on bond until her sentencing, where she faces up to a decade in prison for the healthcare fraud count and could see up to two decades for each of the wire fraud counts, alongside the potential of three years supervised release for each count, and each conviction could come with fines reaching $250,000, the U.S Attorney's Office states.
The case was brought to light by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Springfield Field Office, and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and was fronted in court by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Douglas F. McMeyer, Bryan D. Freres, and Grace J. Hitzeman who prosecuted the case rigorously by pulling all the strings leading the pack in the fight against healthcare fraud.
