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Miami Diabetes Fraudsters Face Jail Time

Published on Tue May 03, 2011

Fraud Strike Force's crackdowns are yielding fraud convictions. One of the home care nurses indicted in the Medicare Fraud Strike Force's massive February "takedown" of various fraud enterprises has been convicted. The original indictment alleged that Armando Santos, a registered nurse, caused a local home health agency to submit $230,315 in false claims to Medicare, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation release. The indictment further alleged that Santos and his conspirators caused the payment of kickbacks and bribes to Medicare beneficiaries in exchange for using their Medicare numbers on claims. On May 26, a federal jury in Miami found Santos guilty of fraud for billing for administering insulin to patients who were not insulin-dependent or homebound, according to a Department of Justice release. And another Miami nurse also was convicted for health care fraud related to diabetic home care patients. Isachi Gil, an RN employed by 13 separate Miami-Dade-based [...]
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