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Medicare Fraud Strike Force Indicts Eight Miami-Dade Residents for AIDS/HIV Infusion Fraud

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, October 20th, 2008

Eight Miami-Dade County residents have been charged in a 16-count indictment for their alleged roles in a Medicare fraud scheme involving fake HIV infusion treatments, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida R. Alexander Acosta announced.

Federal and state Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF) agents arrested seven individuals in Miami. Another charged individual was already in custody at the Miami Federal Correctional Institution, based on a Medicare fraud conviction from 2007.

After the arrests, the Sept. 24, 2008, indictment was unsealed charging one count of...

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