ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage physician Dr. Claribel Tan was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison on Count 1, health care fraud, and 60 months on Count 2, tax evasion, to be served concurrently.
Tan will also serve two years of supervised release after prison. Restitution is expected to total at least $17 million.
Her husband, Daniel Tan, was sentenced to three years of probation with two of those years to be served in home confinement.
Tan previously pleaded guilty to charges tied to what federal prosecutors described as multi-million-dollar health care and tax fraud schemes.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska, Claribel Tan and her husband pleaded guilty in 2025. Prosecutors said the case involved a $12.5 million health care fraud scheme as well as a separate tax fraud scheme.
The DOJ said…
Cyber fraud uses technology as the primary weapon. It is highly scalable and can be conducted from anywhere in the world.
- Phishing/Smishing/Vishing: Using deceptive emails (phishing), text messages (smishing), or phone calls (vishing) to trick victims into clicking malicious links or revealing sensitive data.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC): A high-value scam where a criminal impersonates a CEO or high-level executive via a “spoofed” email address to trick a staff member into making an urgent, unauthorized wire transfer.