Physician fined $30,000 for Medicaid fraud
Compliance Monitor, September 29, 2004
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A Norwalk, CT physician charged in a vaccine fraud case was fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years.
Jorge Elias, MD, was sentenced September 21 in U.S. District Court. He had pleaded guilty in May to defrauding the Medicaid program and private health insurance companies, according to a September 22 story in Newsday.
Elias billed insurers for vaccine doses he received free under the Vaccines for Children program, a state-federal initiative, prosecutors said. From 1997 through 2002, he received more than $220,000 from Medicaid and private insurance companies for vaccines he received from the program, prosecutors said in the Newsday report.
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