A Dallas-area physician has been arrested and indicted for allegedly bilking Medicare of more than $350 million for bogus health care services.

The federal indictment charges that Dr. Jacques Roy of Rockwall, Texas, had also created a fake identity and sent money offshore with intentions to flee the country.

The indictment charges that Roy, who owned Medistat Group Associates in DeSoto, Texas, "engaged in a staggering and long-running fraud scheme," billing Medicare for more than $350 million and Medicaid for more than $24 million on behalf of 11,000 purported beneficiaries.

Roy's office manager as well as five owners of home health agencie were also indicted in the alleged scheme that federal law enforcement officials called the largest healthcare fraud case in the nation's history, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The indictment alleged that from January 2006 through November 2011, Roy or others certified more Medicare beneficiaries for home health services and had more patients than any other medical practice in the U.S.

U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana says Roy used the home health agencies as "his soldiers on the ground to go door to door to recruit Medicare beneficiaries," the Associated Press reports.

In one alleged scam, recruiters would canvass homeless shelters for people with Medicare benefits and direct them to a vehicle parked nearby for "treatment" or examine patients at a courtyard picnic table.

The indictment also says: