Delaware doctor indicted for Medicare fraud
Compliance Monitor, October 29, 2008
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A federal jury indicted Delaware physician Hipolito Aguillon for allegedly submitting over 2,400 overstated Medicare reimbursement claims between March 2005 and December 2006, according to an Associated Press article.
Aguillon is a family practice physician who works out of Seaford. According to Delaware’s U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly, the state’s Medicare provider has known about Aguillon’s suspect billing since 2002.
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