Dr. Richard M. Fleming, formerly of Papillion, was sentenced Thursday in Lincoln to five years probation with six months home detention and ordered to pay restitution for felony health care fraud and mail fraud.

His home detention will include electronic monitoring, and U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ordered him to pay $107,244 in restitution.

Fleming, 53, lives in Nevada now and is licensed to practice medicine in Missouri and Iowa. As part of a plea agreement, he is excluded from ever participating in any federally funded health care benefit program.

A federal grand jury in Nebraska indicted him in early 2007, charging 10 counts of health care fraud for submitting bills to insurance companies in 2002 for diagnostic heart tests he did not perform. Mail and wire fraud counts charged Fleming with obtaining payment from a North Carolina soy food company in 2004 for product testing work he did not do, then creating documents to cover up the fact he did not do the work.

The case went to trial in April of this year, and the jury was deliberating when Fleming pleaded guilty, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release.