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Home Care Fraud Ring Faces Jail Time.

Published on Tue Aug 03, 2010

• Seven Miami-area individuals including a physician have pleaded guilty to Medicare home care fraud charges. Back in December, Dr. Fred Dweck and 14 other people with home care connections were arrested and indicted on fraud charges. (To see the indictment, go to http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/heatsuccess/dweck_indictment.pdf.) On Aug. 31, Dweck admitted to referring 858 Medicare recipients for unnecessary home health care services, according to the South Florida Business Journal. As a result, Miami-area home health care agencies billed the Medicare program for more than $37 million in bogus claims. Clinic owner Yudel Cayro, who employed Dweck, admitted in court that some 344 Medicare recipients were referred through his clinic for unnecessary services, reports the Associated Press. Cayro admitted to receiving kickbacks and bribes from recruiters and from owners and operators of Miami-area HHAs, the Journal says. Nurses Teresita Leal, Armando Sanchez, Lissbet Diaz, Marlenys Fernandez, and Silvio Ruiz worked at various [...]
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