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Miami Still a Hotbed for Medicare Fraud - HIV Clinic Administrator Pleads Guilty for Role in a $14 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Robert David, Esq.

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MIAMI, FL (September 9, 2008) ? Dilcia Marinez, 57, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to her role in defrauding the Medicare program and laundering the proceeds of the crimes in connection with a $14 million HIV infusion fraud scheme. Click here to read the indictment. According to information in plea documents, the Benitezes referred HIV-positive Medicare beneficiaries to the clinic and directed McKenzie to teach doctors how to make it appear legitimate health services were being provided. For the past couple of months, Miami Herald reporter Jay Weaver has written a number of articles detailing how South Florida remains a hotbed for Medicare fraud, including several articles about the Benitez brothers' fraudulent HIV infusion schemes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).

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