Patient Recruiter for Miami Health Care Agency Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

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USDOJ: Patient Recruiter for Miami Health Care Agency Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter of a Miami health care agency pleaded guilty today for his participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Vicente Guerra-Nistal, 54, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Joan A. Lenard in Miami to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Guerra was charged in a February 2011 indictment. According to plea documents, Guerra was a patient recruiter for ABC Home Health Care Inc. ABC was a Miami home health care agency that purported to provide home health and physical therapy services to Medicare beneficiaries.

According to court documents, ABC was operated for the purpose of billing the Medicare program for expensive physical therapy and home health care services that were medically unnecessary and/or were never provided. Court documents allege that the medically unnecessary services were prescribed by doctors, including Jose Nunez, M.D ., and Francisco Gonzalez, M.D. Nunez and Gonzalez were also charged in the February 2011 indictment along with Guerra, and 18 other co-conspirators.

[silenttigersong]

1. lets see

we could bring down the deficit if these a holes who scam the system were paper chased and all assets frozen and forfeited to the feds 25 milxoh 1000=lotz of zeros$ plus fines

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2. What a fucked up system where people are paid to recruit patients.

I remember a time when hospitals & clinics did just fine waiting for patients to come in on their own.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i want SERIOUS prison time. he stole from OLD PEOPLE.

AND uncle sam. these people are FAR worse than a car jacker or a guy who breaks into a house.