Two Florida Men Sentenced to Prison for Medicare Fraud
WASHINGTON - The two owners of Miami-based Health Care companies were at 63 and 56 months for their roles in separate systems of Medicare fraud, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher and the Criminal Division US Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today Divulgués.
In two separate cases, which arise from the disease activity Fraud Strike Force, defendant Juan Carlos Castaneda, 43, the owner and operator of the International Surgical-Med Pharmaceuticals Corporation (International), a pharmacy in Los Angeles , was adopted on March 28, 2008, 63 months in prison, US District Judge James I. Cohn at the federal court in Miami. Jorge Novoa, 71, the owner and operator of Sunny Nutrition Services, Inc., a Miami durable medical equipment (DME), was adopted on March 27, 2008, 56 months in prison, US District Judge Donald L. Graham.
In July 2007, Castaneda pleads guilty, without a plea agreement, which are, for example, in an indictment of conspiracy Castaneda with the cash to pay bribes to 72 DME owners of the company consideration of the aerosol medication rules. Castaneda Medicare on behalf of these drugs and international treaties was 50 percent, and then again from the disease-DME payments to the owners. Upon conviction, the Court found that Castaneda more than $ 4.5 million from Medicare and $ 2040500 paid twice a month in cash DME bribes to the company as owner of part of the system.
In September 2007, Novoa, all paying an indictment without an account of the plea agreement. He pleaded not guilty, between February 1999 and February 2004, Novoa is the burden of disease by the programme of fraudulent claims and commissions, in the disease, he acquired maps and personal information of Medicare beneficiaries when the submission of fraudulent applications unnecessary medical equipment, medicines and aerosols. Upon conviction, the court finds that Novoa bribes paid in cash from $ 70 to $ 200 to Dr. Zabdy Westerburger licence revenue. This false income for unnecessary medical devices and medication in the context of aerosols for beneficiaries of Medicare, received either a superficial examination or not all the tests. Dr. Westerburger to Medicare fraud in 2006.
Castaneda The event was followed by Deputy Chief Kirk Ogrosky and Trial Attorneys John Neal and Nathan Dimock the Criminal Division of the section of combating fraud. Novoa The event was followed by Trial Attorney John E. Cunningham, of the Criminal Division for the fight against fraud and the Deputy Chief Ogrosky. In both cases, the presence of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and the FBI.
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