by Paul Petruzzi | Jul 23, 2019 | Medicare fraud
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...
by Law Offices of Paul D. Petruzzi PA | Feb 26, 2015 | Criminal Defense, Local News, Medicare fraud
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...
by Law Offices of Paul D. Petruzzi PA | Feb 13, 2015 | Criminal Defense, Drug Offenses, Drug trafficking, Medicare fraud
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....
by Paul Petruzzi | Jul 11, 2014 | Medicare fraud
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...
by Paul Petruzzi | May 15, 2014 | Medicare fraud
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...
by Paul Petruzzi | Apr 29, 2014 | Medicare fraud
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,...
by Paul Petruzzi | Oct 21, 2012 | Medicare fraud
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...
