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Date:3/7/2008

de County alone. These drugs were the single most common item billed to Medicare Part B and accounted for more than 32 percent of all equipment claims filed in Miami-Dade County. From 2005 to 2006, claims for aerosol medications rose more than 100 percent in Miami-Dade County. According to Medicare data, Miami-Dade County alone accounted for more paid DME claims than every state in the country except California, Texas, New York, Michigan and Ohio. In June 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ceased paying for compounded aerosol medication because it determined that they were medically unnecessary.

The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force that has been operating since March of 2007. It was prosecuted by Deputy Chief Kirk Ogrosky and Trial Attorney John S. (Jay) Darden of the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, with the investigative assistance of the FBI and HHS-OIG.

The Medicare Strike Force is led by Deputy Chief Ogrosky of the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division in D.C., and the office of U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida. The Strike Force operates out of the federal Health Care Fraud Facility in Miramar, Fla. Since March 1, 2007, the Strike Force has brought charges against 120 defendants, resulting in 101 convictions.

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