A Libertyville-area chiropractor is facing serious federal prison time after a Chicago jury found he ran an insurance scam worth more than half a million dollars, billing for treatments that never happened.
After a week-long trial, a federal jury on June 12 convicted 42-year-old Seung Han Lim of Lincolnshire on 13 counts of health-care fraud. Prosecutors said Lim tried to squeeze more than $600,000 out of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois for chiropractic services that were never actually provided. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 22 and faces up to 10 years in prison on each count if the judge goes with the maximum.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Lim submitted bogus claims to Blue Cross from 2016 through 2019 for services he knew had not been rendered. Some of those claims listed treatment dates when neither Lim nor the patient were even in Illinois.
Other claims, prosecutors said, were billed as if another chiropractor had treated Lim and his own family members. The indictment alleged Blue Cross would have denied those claims if Lim had been listed as the provider, so he simply used someone else’s name instead.
Local reporting by Lake and McHenry County Scanner notes that Lim owned Movement Health and Rehab, also known as Motu Chiropractic and Motu Chiromassage. The clinic previously operated at 1310 South Milwaukee Avenue in Libertyville before the business was dissolved in December 2020, according to public records.
Prosecutors Say He Cooked the Books When Insurer Came Knocking
When Blue Cross moved to audit the questionable claims, Lim did not back down, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. Instead, he prepared and submitted false patient medical records and other documents to support the billing, helping his clinic collect more than $600,000 for services that, prosecutors say, were never performed.
Federal charging documents and press materials describe altered records that were allegedly tailored to match the phony billing entries during those audits, effectively creating paperwork to fit the charges already sent to the insurer.
Sentencing on Horizon After 13 Fraud Counts
The jury’s verdict covered 13 of the 14 counts Lim was indicted on in 2023, leaving him convicted on all but one charge. As reported by the Daily Herald, sentencing is set for Oct. 22, 2026, and each count carries a statutory maximum of up to ten years behind bars.
The case was investigated with help from the FBI and the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Paige Nutini and Caitlin Walgamuth. A federal judge will determine Lim’s final sentence at the October hearing, weighing guidelines, arguments from both sides, and the scope of the fraud the jury found proved.
