U.S. Attorney Reports Increase In Number Of South Florida Medicare Fraud Prosecutions
In the past 12 months, 245 South Florida defendants have been charged with filing nearly $793.5 million in false Medicare claims, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida R. Alexander Acosta said on Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Acosta credited the federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force for increasing the number of prosecutions.
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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on October 13th, 2008