First Miami defendant in nation’s biggest health fraud case pleads guilty (houses)

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

The first Miami defendant in the nation’s largest mental healthcare fraud case pleaded guilty to paying millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for Medicare patients who didn’t need the costly therapy.

Her job as marketing director for a Miami-based mental healthcare chain was to bring in the patients and nobody did their job better than Margarita Acevedo.

Investigators say she paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to South Florida assisted-living facilities, halfway houses and recruiters to supply thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to American Therapeutic Corp.’s chain of seven clinics -- patients who didn’t need the costly treatment.

First Miami defendant in nation’s biggest health fraud case pleads guilty - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/08/2158019/first-miami-defendant-in-nations.html - broken link)

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and many more rats to be sentenced .

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by JackTheRipper

The first Miami defendant in the nation’s largest mental healthcare fraud case pleaded guilty to paying millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for Medicare patients who didn’t need the costly therapy.

Her job as marketing director for a Miami-based mental healthcare chain was to bring in the patients and nobody did their job better than Margarita Acevedo.

Investigators say she paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to South Florida assisted-living facilities, halfway houses and recruiters to supply thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to American Therapeutic Corp.’s chain of seven clinics -- patients who didn’t need the costly treatment.

First Miami defendant in nation’s biggest health fraud case pleads guilty - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/08/2158019/first-miami-defendant-in-nations.html - broken link)

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and many more rats to be sentenced .

You mean WE paid, not her. It ultimately came from us. Hope she enjoys her time in the slammer. Hag.

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

very well said .

[tallrick]

Healthcare fraud is a pillar of the Miami-dade economy. Get rid of it and a lot of wealth will be gone.

[dalmain]

I see these disgusting acts on a weekly basis. I'm surprised more of these people are going down..they are stealing and ripping off the tax payers.

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

Originally Posted by tallrick

Healthcare fraud is a pillar of the Miami-dade economy. Get rid of it and a lot of wealth will be gone.

We need another Crack/Cocaine Epidemy .

[MiamiRob]

It isn't a Miami Dade thing. Look at the Medicare fraud chief who now sits in the governor's mansion!

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

It's funny how it's mostly Non-Cuban/Americans who do such things.