Medical Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty to Role in $5.3 Million Medicare Fr... (ual stated that such tampering was done ...)

Medical Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty to Role in $5.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Date:1/8/2009

ual stated that such tampering was done to make the medical files appear legitimate.

Pascual is currently incarcerated for Medicare fraud involving the operation of a durable medical equipment (DME) company in Miami from 2001 to 2003. Sentencing in this case is scheduled for April 3, 2009.

Seven co-defendants in the case are scheduled for trial beginning Feb. 9, 2009, in the Southern District of Florida. An indictment is merely a charge, and defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy Chief Kirk Ogrosky and Assistant Chief John S. "Jay" Darden of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General and FBI. The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF), supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and U.S. Attorney Acosta of the Southern District of Florida. Since the inception of MFSF operations, federal prosecutors have indicted 106 cases with 189 defendants in both Los Angeles and Miami. Collectively, these defendants fraudulently billed the Medicare program for more than half a billion dollars.

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