South Florida continues to be the hot bed of Medicare fraud as three more doctors were arrested over the past weekend in relation to millions of dollars in false claims involving obsolete HIV therapy. Physicians Carmen Lourdes del Cueto, 65; Roberto Rodriguez, 54; and Carlos Garrido, 69 are being held under accusations of submitting $10 million in fraudulent claims for therapies that either were not given or were not needed for HIV therapy. They also being charged with money laundering in the amount of $5 million from payments made by the federal government over the last four years. The physicians and their assistants are suspected of offering kickbacks to their patients for allowing the facility to use their Medicare policy #’s to submit the false claims. Other doctors were involved and are being held for falsifying documents and manipulating blood samples. How far reaching are the effects of these cases of fraud? In times such as these when budgets are tight and funds are limited, how can Florida afford these fraudulent activities? Is there a better way to prevent them from occurring?
Do what they do in other countries, eye for an eye. Take back all their assets and cut off their hands for stealing.
No better way. People are going to steal, there is nothing you can do about it. One idea would be for Barack Obama to stop introducing all these new government programs so that the current programs can focus on their own problems rather than spread all the programs so thin.
the unfortunate part is that the funding that is meant for good is used for bad and screws up people that are legit…
How far reaching? Let’s just say that over the years there has been a consistent culture of fraud and one may surmise that for every indictment that comes to light there are many times over more that have not. The State approaches bankruptcy!! Administer the law diligently and mete out the most stringent sentences available. Not just the doctors but those complicit in the fraud and high profile these and all other cases. We do want change.