2 sisters wanted in $9.1-million Medicare fraud case arrested in South America

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BY PATRICIA ANSTETT
DETROIT FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER

Two sisters wanted in a $9.1-million Medicare fraud investigation into their Dearborn clinic have been arrested in South America and will be returned to Detroit to face charges, the nation's highest health official announced Tuesday at a Medicare fraud conference in Detroit.

Clara Guilarte, 56, and Caridad Guilarte, 54, missing since February 2007, were on a federal most-wanted list for Medicare fraud. They were apprehended Sunday as they tried to get on a plane in Colombia, said Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Tom Spokaeski, an investigator with the federal fraud task force in Detroit, said the sisters were arrested after tipsters called a national Medicare fraud hotline.

They are charged with committing fraud at the Dearborn Medical and Rehabilitation Center, a drug infusion clinic they opened that served people with AIDS and HIV, hepatitis C and other chronic conditions.
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http://www.freep.com/article/20110316/NEWS06/103160356/2-sisters-wanted-9-1-million-Medicare-fraud-case-arrested-South-America

[ret5hd]

1. Probably somebody with access to the money turned them in.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Good. They are sure going after the Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

I hope they catch them all.