MARIETTA - A Marietta husband and wife are accused of fraudulently billing health care insurers for millions of dollars in physical therapy services that were never provided.

Andrew Sokol, 41, and Julie Weisberg, 35, were arraigned in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on Friday. They are accused of billing Blue Cross Blue Shield and other private insurers more than $11 million in fake insurance claims for physical therapy.

"Health care providers who abuse their positions by filing fraudulent insurance claims for personal financial gain are a very real problem to the health care industry itself. Loss amounts in these criminal fraud cases often demonstrate a level of greed that is hard to comprehend," Atlanta FBI Special Agent in Charge Gregory Jones said of the case in a statement.

Sokol and Weisberg could not be reached for comment. They do not have a listed home phone number on switchboard.com, and the phone at their business, WellnessOne in Marietta, has been disconnected.

Both Sokol and Weisberg are licensed chiropractors, who provided massages, personal training and chiropractic adjustments, said acting U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.

Sokol owned and operated several WellnessOne clinics in Marietta, Vinings, Buckhead, Duluth and other locations in metro Atlanta. Weisberg was a partner in WellnessOne Marietta, 2727 Canton Road. The Marietta location was the most profitable of the clinics, Yates said.

According to Weisberg's MySpace Page, she graduated from Life University in 1998 with a doctorate of chiropractic.

A federal grand jury indicted the couple on Tuesday. Sokol is charged with one count of conspiracy, 53 counts of health care fraud, three counts of mail fraud and five counts of money laundering. Weisberg will face one count of conspiracy, 24 counts of health care fraud and three counts of mail fraud. The indictment includes a forfeiture provision for their personal property at 3306 Hadleigh Court in Marietta.

From January 2005 to September 2007, the couple employed licensed medical doctors and physical therapists in order to bill massage as physical therapy, Yates said. The licensed providers didn't see a majority of the patients and massage therapists gave the massages, she said.

Sokol also built gyms in the clinics and then billed personal training sessions to insurers as physical therapy, Yates said. He would use false provider names, billing codes and tax identification numbers to hide the fraud from insurers, she said.

The couple is said to have targeted MBNA and Bank of America employees with their scheme because their Blue Cross Blue Shield policies provided generous chiropractic and physical therapy insurance benefits, Yates said.