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Miami Physicians Plead Guilty and Admit Ordering $6.8M Worth of Unnecessary HIV Infusion Treatments

By Robert David, Esq.

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MIAMI, FL (September 11, 2008) - Miami physicians, Carlos Contreras, M.D., and Ramon Pichardo, M.D., each pleaded guilty today to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $6.8 million HIV infusion fraud scheme. To read the indictment in its entirety, click here. Contreras, 60, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and admitted that he owned a Miami clinic named CNC Medical Inc. (CNC), which purported to specialize in the treatment of HIV positive patients. From November 2002 through April 2004, Contreras admitted that he conspired with others to submit approximately $6.8 million in fraudulent Medicare bills; that he knowingly signed documents containing false information about treatments purportedly given to HIV positive patients...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on September 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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