Health Workers Charged With Fraud
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Thirty-four employees of a home health agency, including five doctors and 12 nurses, were indicted in Miami on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by submitting $10 million in phony Medicare bills. The three-year investigation of Amitan, a Medicare-certified home health care agency, included a sting involving an FBI-operated dummy company. Amitan, which is now out of business, created false medical records that were signed by nurses and doctors to make them look legitimate, prosecutors said.
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