Walter Presha Jr. Released on Bond After Indictment Accused Him of Steering Medicare Patients to Leigh Tesar

Walter Presha Jr. Released on Bond After Indictment Accused Him of Steering Medicare Patients to Leigh Tesar

Prosecutors allege the registered nurse helped identify medically vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries for lucrative wound-care referrals,

Federal Case Details Alleged “Referral Loop” Behind Leigh Tesar’s Medicare Wound-Billing Racket

Prosecutors allege co-defendants supplied Medicare beneficiaries for high-cost allograft care, creating what may be described as a patient-feeder network, although the indictment itself calls them purported sales representatives rather than “feeders” in its formal charging language. WASHINGTON, DC, August 22, 2026 — Federal prosecutors have placed an alleged patient-referral pipeline at the center of their case against Florida nurse practitioner…