ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An eastern Missouri doctor has been sentenced to 33 months in prison on a health care fraud charge.

Dr. James Ellegood of De Soto also must pay nearly $1 million in restitution. The 72-year-old pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to defraud a health care program in a St. Louis federal court.

His wife, 47-year-old Wynsleen Ellegood, received three years probation for making a false statement in a financial report.

The couple operated Missouri Physician Home Services. Prosecutors have said the doctor and his company charged Medicare and Medicaid for services that were actually performed by Dr. Rajitha Goli of St. Louis. Goli's medical license was revoked in Missouri after she was convicted in 2002 of health care fraud in Nebraska.

Goli has entered a guilty plea to making a false statement.

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