New data on Medicare payments released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Details of how $77 billion in federal health-care funds were spent in 2012, it showed a wide range in which some top earners were paid as much as 100 times the average for their...
Medicare fraud
Miami Launderer gets 3 1/2 Years in Prison
Miami launderer get 3 ½ years in prison The younger brother of a fugitive money launderer accused of laundering $238 million from Medicare fraud from Florida into Cuba's banking system was sentenced Wednesday. Eduardo Perez de Morales, received an extraordinary light...
Catch Me If You Can Fake Doctor Imprisoned 17 Years for Medicare Fraud in Miami
For several years already, Alejandra Collazo posed as a doctor at her Hialeah medical clinic, using stolen identities of physicians to write over 2,000 fake prescription referrals to home health care agencies that paid her kickbacks for referring the patients....
Fanny pack mixup unravels massive Medicare fraud scheme in Key Biscayne
The Federal government continues to focus on Medicare fraud in South Florida. Here's the latest Medicare fraud coverage from the Miami Herald: The fraud scheme began to unravel last fall, with the discovery of a misdirected stack of bogus prescriptions — and a...
New arrest,Cuban Medicare money laundering
Any federal criminal lawyer in Miami can tell you that millions of dollars derived from illegal Medicare fraud winds up in Cuba. Given the sheer volume of ex-patriot Cubans living in South Florida that become involved in Medicare fraud, it just seems inevitable that...
One Therapist, $4 Million in 2012 Medicare Billing
Wael Bakry, 42, does not dispute the $4.1 million he was paid by Medicare. However, according to Bakry, the Medicare data released this month can be “deceiving.” One person, he said, could not provide all of that care alone. He hasn’t been charged or arrested yet so,...
Medicare fraud case: 91 professionals arrested
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Justice Department announced criminal charges Thursday against 91 people who allegedly received about $430 million through wide-ranging Medicare fraud. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
