Miami Doctor and Therapists charged in $63 million Medicare fraud

[superpatriotman]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/16/3503464/miami-doctor-and-therapists-charged.html

A psychiatrist who has been practicing in Miami since the 1970s was arrested Tuesday along with six therapists on charges of scheming to steal $63 million from the taxpayer-funded Medicare program.

Roger Rousseau, 71, the former medical director for a defunct mental-health clinic operation, was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit health care fraud.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/16/3503464/miami-doctor-and-therapists-charged.html#storylink=cpy

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Rousseau served as the medical director of Health Care Solutions Network in Florida, owned by Armando “Manny” Gonzalez. The owner was sentenced in February to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to Medicare fraud charges stemming from operations in his chain of clinics in South Florida and North Carolina.

Gonzalez, 50, a previously convicted cocaine trafficker, pocketed $28 million in Medicare payments for purported psychotherapy sessions that patients didn’t need or receive between 2004 and 2011, according to federal prosecutors.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/16/3503464/miami-doctor-and-therapists-charged.html#storylink=cpy

[Mnemosyne]

1. The clients are always blamed, yet this crap happens regularly.

Welcome to DU, spm!