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3 HHA Operators Plead Guilty To Kickbacks, Fraud

Published on Fri Jan 06, 2012

Three Miami HHA operators charged with Medicare fraud last year have pled guilty. Roberto and Olga Gonzalez and their son, Fabian Gonzalez, owners of Nany Home Health Inc., pled guilty to paying kickbacks and bribes for recruited patients and their plans of care, according to a release from the Department of Justice. Nany's nurses and office staff falsified patient records to make the patients appear homebound and to require insulin injections, prosecutors say. Medicare paid about $40 million for the false claims from 2006 to 2009. The case was investigated by the FBI and HHS OIG as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Strike Force operations in nine locations have charged more than 1,140 defendants who have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $2.9 billion, DOJ notes.
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