A now-defunct Greensburg medical billing company was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay nearly $115,000 in restitution today for improperly taking money from another company.

Domenick A. Meffe Sr., the president and owner of The Wellington Healthcare Group Inc., was charged with 13 counts of theft or embezzlement in connection with healthcare in August 2007. However, the federal indictment against him was dismissed today at the conclusion of Wellington's sentencing in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

Mr. Meffe was also the president of another medical billing company, Post Acute Care LLC. According to the prosecution, Post Acute Care received payments from various insurance companies that were to be forwarded to medical providers for services already rendered. However, instead of the money being sent for those payments, it was transferred into two separate accounts -- one a Merrill Lynch brokerage account, and the other, Wellington's operating account.

Though prosecutors initally accused Mr. Meffe of taking more than $755,000, they were able to recover the vast majority of that money in the brokerage account.