Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Care Nurse Convicted Of Fraud Gets 10 Years In Jail
A Miami-area home care nurse convicted of health care fraud related to diabetic home health patients has received the maximum prison sentence for the crime. Armando Santos, who worked for Ideal Home Health, received a 10-year prison sentence for a fraud conviction handed down earlier this year (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 21, p. 166). Prosecutors said Santos claimed to give twice daily insulin injections to home health patients who were neither homebound nor in need of insulin, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. Last month, Ideal owners Elizabeth Acosta Sanz and Luis Alejandro Sanz were indicted on fraud, kickback, and money laundering charges. Luis Alejandro Sanz served prison time for cocaine smuggling in the 1990s (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 28, p. 219).
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