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Medicare Fraud Defendant Gets 10-Year Prison Term

By Robert David, Esq.

On May 18, 2007, the US Attorney's Office reported that Jafet Garcia, a defendant in a massive South Florida Medicare fraud scheme, was sentenced in West Palm Beach Federal court to ten (10) years? imprisonment. According to the court file, the defendant and his partners purchased four medical equipment companies located in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, between February 2004 and December 2004. The defendant and his partners recruited individuals to pose as the owners of these companies. After setting up the companies, the defendant and his partners obtained patient and physician information which they used to prepare bogus prescriptions and/or certificates of medical necessity. The bogus prescriptions and certificates purported to authorize the provision of various types of medical equipment for the named Medicare beneficiaries; in truth, the prescriptions and certificates were prepared by the defendant and/or his accomplices and contained forged physicians? signatures...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on May 25, 2007 (boomark / email).