November 17, 2017
Prosecutors told Florida federal court Thursday not to declare innocent a doctor whose conviction for participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud was overturned three years into a nine-year sentence, arguing that while not proven guilty she "is not actually innocent."
August 27, 2013
A psychiatrist who pled guilty to a role in a $205 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme at a Miami medical company was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $8.1 million in restitution Tuesday in Florida federal court.
August 26, 2013
A former marketer for American Therapeutic Corp., a Miami medical company at the center of a $205 million Medicare scheme, was sentenced Monday to 34 months in federal prison plus three years of supervised release.
August 21, 2013
A psychiatrist who previously pled guilty to a role in a $205 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme urged a Florida federal judge Wednesday to grant him a lenient sentence, arguing that his role in the scheme had been minor and that he was contrite over it.
January 28, 2013
A Florida federal judge on Monday sentenced a Miami-area mental health counselor to four years in prison and ordered her to pay more than $72 million in restitution for her role in a $205 million Medicare fraud conspiracy.
November 16, 2012
A Florida federal jury on Thursday convicted two Miami-area health professionals for their roles in a massive $205 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme that prosecutors said was one of the most "brazen in recent memory."
October 12, 2012
A Florida federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former mental health care company manager to 108 months in prison for her role in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme involving kickbacks for referrals of mentally ill and substance abuse patients.
October 02, 2012
Waving off requests for a new trial, a Florida federal judge on Monday sentenced two Miami-area doctors to 10 years in prison for participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving kickbacks for referrals of drug-addicted and vegetative patients.
August 23, 2012
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Medicare patient recruiter to 57 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for taking kickbacks as part of a massive $205 million home health care fraud.
July 17, 2012
Two physicians and a therapist have asked a Florida federal judge for a new trial after being convicted for their alleged roles in a massive $205 million Medicare kickback scheme that landed its organizer in prison and led to guilty pleas from several others.