Fake Paramedic Admits Forging Certificate

DENVER -- A man who worked for American Medical Response pleaded guilty
Wednesday to falsifying his credential as a paramedic.

Todd Teel, 41, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal impersonation.

Teel, who was not a state-certified paramedic, provided American Medical
Response of Denver with a falsified certificate attesting to his paramedic
status, the attorney general's office said.

The complaint, which was filed last October, alleged that Teel operated in
AMR ambulances as a paramedic between June 2006 and December 2007.

Teel could face a prison term of up to 1.5 years, and a maximum $100,000
fine, when he is sentenced on March 6.

Teel left AMR in December 2007 and currently is living in Wyoming. He is
free on a $5,000 bond.

The Attorney General's Office said it is not aware of any patients who were
harmed by Teel's lack of certification as a paramedic. The case was
investigated by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which
probes allegations of fraud and patient abuse in federally-funded health
care programs. AMR Ambulance cooperated fully with the investigation, the
attorney general's office said.

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