Alyssa Eisenberg, PharmD, explores technology’s emerging role in the health care environment and how the pharmacist of the future’s day-to-day tasks might evolve.
|Articles|January 28, 2008
Miami defendants in strike force case sentenced for Medicare fraud
Nine Miami defendants in strike force cases sentenced for Medicare fraud
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Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced that owners of nine separate Miami-based healthcare corporations have been sentenced to prison terms within the past two weeks. Collectively, the nine defendants filed fraudulent claims with Medicare for $56.5 million worth of unnecessary durable medical equipment and infusion therapy.
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