DETROIT, MI -- A health care worker pleaded guilty Friday to selling seniors' Medicare information for $200-$300 per beneficiary, according to the FBI.

Clarence Cooper of Detroit was accused of playing a role in a scheme to submit fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care services that were either unnecessary or never provided.

The now-defunct First Choice Home Health Care Services Inc. and Reliance Home Care, LLC used the information of hundreds of Medicare beneficiaries provided by Cooper to bill the government nearly $1 million in fraudulent claims between 2008 and 2012, investigators found.

Cooper, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to an FBI news release.

He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Cooper is scheduled to be sentenced July 23.

Federal investigators believe the scheme was part of a larger operation that cost the government more than $24.7 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care, psychotherapy and other medical services.

Some other recent federal health care fraud prosecutions:

-Seven arrested in Medicare fraud scheme involving four Oakland County health care agencies

-Livonia doctor accused of luring fraudulent patients with fast food ordered to pay back $3 million in Medicare costs

-Farmington Hills woman pleads guilty in $4.7 million Medicare scheme

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Health care worker pleads guilty to selling Medicare information in Detroit-area scheme