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MIAMI DME OWNER SENTENCED FOR MEDICARE FRAUD

By Robert David, Esq.

Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz sentenced Ariel Delgado, a Miami DME owner, to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $474,609 and pay restitution in the amount of $170,709. According to the Indictment and the factual proffer read in open court at the time of the plea, on January 10, 2008, defendant Delgado became the president and registered agent of Caballero De Paris Inc. (hereinafter ?Caballero?), a pharmacy purportedly doing business in Miami-Dade County. From January 10, 2008 through March 5, 2008, Caballero billed Medicare $1,388,051. Medicare paid Caballero $645,318 on these claims. Delgado was the sole signatory on the account into which all of the Medicare fraud proceeds were deposited...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).