Industry Note:
Miami HHA Owner Draws 10-Year Prison Sentence
Published on Thu May 03, 2012
Three Miami HHA operators who pled guilty to Medicare fraud early this year have received jail time. 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. A federal judge in Miami sentenced Roberto Gonzalez to 10 years in prison, and Olga and Fabian Gonzalez to more than seven years in prison each. Each defendant was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $40 million in restitution jointly with co-defendants.