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Texas Health Marketer Pleads Guilty To Kickbacks

Published on Fri Mar 09, 2012

Once again, the feds aren't just targeting home care providers when busting Medicare fraud. A McAllen, Texas health care marketer has pled guilty to taking kickbacks in return for referring patients to a variety of providers including home health agencies, according to a release from the Department of Justice. An indictment unsealed in January accused Alicia Vasquez of taking at least $70,000 in kickbacks to refer patients from her "health care resource center," David's Star Loving Vision, to home care providers, durable medical equipment suppliers, and physicians. Vasquez and the entities receiving her referrals concealed the payments by routing them through third parties, among other ways, the DOJ says.
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