A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned indictments last week against 53 doctors, business owners, executives, assistants, and purported patients in a mass area sweep of alleged Medicare fraud-feasors. According to Attorney General Holder, the fraud has spread like a disease across the country: “Ten of the defendants named in the indictments unsealed today are alleged to have brought their fraud schemes from Miami to Detroit,” he said. “After we arrested and charged criminals in Miami, their cohorts simply moved their schemes to Detroit.” Read summaries of the indictments released by the Motor City Medicare Fraud Strike Force here and a related indictment of some of the Miami defendants, here.
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[…] 1, 2009 Last week, Fraudblawg reported the indictments of more than fifty people in an across country roundup of allege…. (Read the indictiment of some of the Miami defendants). CBS News captured video of one of the […]
[…] approximately $6,577,89 for unnecessary treatments and treatments that were never performed. Vargas was one of more than 50 individuals indicted in June in a Medicare Fraud roundup reported by …. She will be sentenced on Feb 11, 2010, and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 […]
[…] January 14, 2010 Ingrid Mazorra plead guilty to conspiracy to commit health fraud, according to the DoJ. Mazorra admitted in September 2006 that she agreed to help operate a fraudulent infusion and injection clinic, called Xpress Center Inc. in Livonia, Michigan. Medicare was billed for unnecessary services or services that were never provided to Medicare beneficiaries who were recruited by Mazzorra and paid with cash kickbacks and narcotic prescriptions. Mazorra, clinic manager, admitted to creating false patient files and other false documents to conceal the fraud at the clinic. The clinic submitted $2.3 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, and Medicare paid approximately $1.8 million on those claims. Mazorra may face 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Fraudblawg has followed this developing story since its inception and previously reported here, here, here, here, and here. […]
[…] earlier this year). Just over a year ago, more than 50 individuals were arrested in what was heretofore the largest healthcare fraud round-up. According to DoJ, the individuals charged in Friday’s raid included “physicians, […]