HIV clinic operator sentenced to 57 months in prison for Medicare fraud
Compliance Monitor, November 24, 2010
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U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan sentenced Jose Garcia, 55, to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to submit false claims to Medicare, pay healthcare kickbacks, and commit healthcare fraud, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.
Jordan also ordered Garcia to serve three years of supervised release and to pay, with his co-conspirators, restitution of $7. million.
According to the DOJ, Garcia operated Global Med-Care Corp. Inc., a medical clinic in Miami that purported to specialize in treating patients with HIV. From April through August 2003, Garcia and coconspirators used Global Med-Care to submit approximately $10.9 million in claims to the Medicare program for HIV infusion services that were never provided or were medically unnecessary.
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