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Medicare Fraud Defendant Sentenced in Florida

By Robert David, Esq.

On January 10, Cesar Romero was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz to forty-six months in jail and remanded into immediate custody for his role in a multi-million dollar Medicare billing fraud scheme on which Romero previously had pled guilty. Romero faced a potential sentence range of 46 to 57 months in prison, but was sentenced to the low-end of the advisory guidelines' sentencing range called for under an Adjusted Offense Level of 23. Romero's counsel disputed the 2-level upward departure from the base offense level of 21 with a lower advisory sentencing range of 37 to 46 months incarceration. Romero took part in a scheme in which a phantom health clinic, named ?The Real Group & Associates, Inc.,? was incorporated in South Florida and subsequently billed Medicare for reimbursement for non-existent drug infusion and injection therapies typically prescribed to AIDS and chemotherapy patients...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).