This past Friday July 16 at a press conference in Miami Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that over 360 federal agents had raided the homes and offices of Medicare fraudsters accused of stealing over $251 million. Authorities say most of the thirty-six individuals arrested Friday...
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Eight defendants were recently charged in an elaborate scam that involved billing Medicare for fake HIV and cancer infusion drugs. The fraud spanned the five states of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana and used 29 fake storefronts in order to attempt to steal $100 million from Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Two...
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Alcides Garcia’s accent gave him away in the Canary Islands in February. The Cuban born fugitive was wanted for Medicare fraud in Miami. After visiting a shipping company to get his belongings sent to the island from Miami, the owner was suspicious of his accent because he has said he was Mexican but had...
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Miami-Dade doctor Carmen Lourdes del Cuerto pleaded guilty again last week to participating in a Medicare fraud scheme with four other doctors between 2003 and 2006. Del Cuerto and the four other doctors were accused of prescribing approximately $19.5 million in drugs for HIV patients who did not need or receive the therapy. The...
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Due to the many cases of Medicare fraud in the past year in Florida, the House unanimously voted and passed tighter rules on licensing for health service providers in the hopes of reducing healthcare fraud, specifically Medicare and Medicaid fraud. As a result of the many Medicare scandals in South Florida recently (over 600...
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Last month we heard it out of Miami, now we’re hearing it out of Houston. A June 26 sentencing is scheduled for 3 people who were accused of Medicare fraud the other day. The $36 million Medicare billing fraud included Rhonda Fleming, 45, Bose Ebhamen, 45, and King Arthur, 54. The three were convicted...
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