Feds make more arrests in major Medicare fraud case

Feds make more arrests in major Medicare fraud case

A widening federal investigation into a Miami-based company accused of Medicare fraud netted the arrest of several doctors along with more than a dozen other defendants.   BY JAY WEAVER February 15, 2011     A trio of doctors altered the diagnoses and...
Feds make more arrests in major Medicare fraud case

2011 Starts Off With More Stories On Top Prescribers

The investigation initially focused on a Miami psychiatrist who wrote $43 Million worth of prescriptions from 2004-2009.  It was calculated that psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March 2009. On...