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Feds Charge Seven in $11 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Robert David, Esq.

Seven Miami-area residents were indicted on April 2, 2008, in connection with an $11 million Medicare fraud scheme involving HIV infusion clinics. The defendants were all charged with: conspiracy to defraud the United States, to cause the submission of false claims, to pay health care kickbacks, and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to a report filed early last fall, by the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, health care providers in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach submitted $2.5 billion in claims to Medicare on behalf of HIV/AIDS patients in 2005. According to the indictment, Mariela Rodriguez and Perera incorporated Saint Jude Rehab Center, Inc. (Saint Jude) in April 2003 as a medical clinic that purported to specialize in treating HIV patients...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).