Tag Archives: Miami White Collar Crimes Attorney
Florida Doctor with Senatorial Ties Charged with Fraud and Corruption
Florida doctor Salomon Melgen has been indicted on fraud and corruption charges tied to his medical practice and his connections with Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey). Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida recently hit Dr. Melgen with an indictment charging 46 counts of health care fraud associated with his ophthalmology practice. Nineteen… Read More »
PIP Fraud Arrests in Miami
Nine arrests were made last month in the Miami area, by agents of the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud, in separate cases for personal injury protection fraud. The individuals staged automobile accidents and submitted thousands of dollars’ worth of fraudulent bills to various insurance carriers. Personal injury protection (PIP) fraud… Read More »
Federal Moratorium Leading to Miami Convictions
To combat health care fraud, the federal government has the power to prohibit unscrupulous health care providers from enrolling in Medicare and Medicaid. In 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services exercised that power to ban several providers and ambulance suppliers in the Miami, Houston, and Chicago areas from enrolling. This ban was… Read More »
Florida’s Doctors and Health Care Continue to be Targeted by the Feds
After releasing Medicare payment data for the first time since the 1970s, the Justice Department is now joining in lawsuits against high-billing doctors, accusing them of fraud and illegal health practices. The Medicare payment report indicated that the top 1% of 825,000 individual medical providers accounted for 14% of the $77 billion in billing… Read More »