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Strike Force Targets Medicare Fraud By Los Angeles Area Health Care Companies
Date:5/8/2008

Initial Weeks of Phase Two Operations Leads to Indictment of 11 Defendants in Nine Cases

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eleven people have been indicted in the second phase of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Alice S. Fisher and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O'Brien announced today.

The indictments in the Central District of California resulted from the creation of a multi-agency team of federal, state and local investigators designed specifically to combat Medicare fraud through the use of real-time analysis of Medicare billing data. The first phase of the strike force began operating in Miami-Dade County on March 1, 2007, and has secured more than 100 convictions to date related to fraudulent Medicare billing.

Since phase two of strike force operations began in Los Angeles on March 1, 2008, the strike force has obtained indictments of individuals and organizations that collectively have made almost $13 million in fraudulent claims to the Medicare program. Charges brought against the defendants in these indictments include conspiracy to commit health care fraud, advising or participating in a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program and aggravated identity theft. If convicted, many of the defendants face up to ten years in prison. All indictments also seek forfeiture of the criminal proceeds.

"The indictment of 11 defendants and execution of six warrants mark phase two of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force which focuses resources to target Medicare fraud as it is occurring. The Strike Force has been successful in recovering millions of dollars that were bilked from the Medicare program and in convicting more than 100 wrongdoers in Miami," said Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Alice S. Fisher. "
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