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Detroit Physician Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Published on Fri Mar 14, 2014
A physician who furnished house calls in Detroit has pleaded guilty to an $11.5 million Medi-care fraud scheme. Jose Mercado-Francis held himself out as a licensed physician and purported to provide physician home services to Medicare beneficiaries, when actually his medical license had been revoked and he was not licensed to practice medicine in Michi-gan, the Department of Justice says [...]