Medicare at a glance
Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance to 44 million people -- about one in seven Americans. People aged 65 and older are automatically entitled to Medicare if they or their...
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An artificial leg and leather socket: $4,300. Ninety pieces of collagen dressing at 48 square inches each: $20,552. One hundred ninety-two vials of Filgrastim to decrease infection during...
View ArticleMedicare fraud rampant in South Florida
Whenever Alexander McCray lights up his crack pipe, U.S. taxpayers help pay for his habit. McCray has defrauded Medicare by selling his government-issued health card number to private clinics in...
View ArticleSouth Florida medical equipment providers
There are nearly 2,100 South Florida businesses licensed by Medicare to sell medical supplies such as wheelchairs, artificial limbs and home oxygen equipment. Miami-Dade County has the most, with 931...
View ArticleProsecutors called their business 'All-Fraud'
Starting in their 20s, a Miami-Dade couple built what would turn out to be one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in the country.
View ArticleNurse takes down phony equipment dealers
The sign on Suite No. 315 says ``Open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.'' But the Hialeah medical equipment business -- suspected of billing the U.S. government a few million dollars in bogus Medicare claims -- is...
View ArticleClinics make a mint on fake HIV treatment
The men show up on foot, on bicycles, by van or car. Before entering the sky-blue door at the rear of the vast office plaza, they carefully look around to make sure no one is watching them go in.
View ArticleA former scam artist tells how it works
He dropped out of high school in ninth grade. Got busted for carrying a load of cocaine. And dabbled in marijuana grow houses. Angel Castillo Jr. finally found his criminal calling as an entrepreneur...
View ArticleMedicare fraud fugitives evade capture
The Benitez brothers were masters of Medicare fraud, prosecutors say. They spent their Medicare millions on Mediterranean-style homes, apartments, hotels, boats, a helicopter, even a water park -- all...
View ArticleMedicare agency stymied in quest for 'a pound of cure'
The dollar might not be worth much these days, but it can go pretty far in the fight against healthcare fraud, experts say. For every $2 million invested in anti-fraud efforts annually, a health...
View ArticleCongress tight with Medicare anti-fraud funds
For years, Medicare has begged Congress to help stop the loss of billions of dollars to healthcare scams from Miami to Los Angeles.
View ArticleFeds spotlight South Florida’s mental health clinics for...
A new federal report shines light on South Florida’s mental health clinics for submitting “questionable billing” to Medicare, as prosecutors crack down on multimillion-dollar fraud schemes.
View ArticleCheck casher pleads guilty to laundering stolen Medicare millions that wound...
Oscar L. Sánchez, who pleaded guilty to laundering millions in stolen Medicare payments, has agreed to “cooperate fully” with the U.S. attorney’s office in hopes of reducing a potential prison...
View ArticleFeds ban new home healthcare agencies in Miami to fight Medicare fraud
Amid concern about rampant Medicare fraud, an unprecedented moratorium was imposed on new home healthcare agencies in Miami-Dade.
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