Three Miami Area Doctors and Six Others Charged in $56 Million Health Care Fra...(othe Medicare program and to pay health ...),Health

Date:5/29/2008

o the Medicare program, and to pay health care kickbacks; one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; and one count of conspiracy to launder the proceeds of their crimes. In addition, Marinez was charged with five counts of money laundering, Frias with three counts of money laundering and Castaneda with two counts of money laundering. Castaneda and Marinez were also each charged with three counts of structuring currency transactions for the purpose of evading reporting requirements. If convicted, Castaneda faces a maximum of 90 years in prison, Marinez faces a maximum of 140 years in prison, and Frias faces a maximum of 85 years in prison.

In another indictment involving a similar scheme, Jose Garcia, 53, and Nayda Freire, 60, allegedly conspired between April 2003 and November 2003 to submit approximately $10.9 million in false and fraudulent claims to the Medicare program for HIV infusion services allegedly provided at Global Med-Care Corp., an HIV infusion clinic operated by Garcia and Freire. As part of the scheme, Garcia, Freire and their co-conspirators also allegedly retained physicians and physicians' assistants at Global Med-Care to make it appear legitimate HIV infusion services were being provided and to train the physicians to make it appear that legitimate and appropriate medical services were being provided. They would then cause the payment of cash kickbacks to beneficiaries who signed documents stating they had received the non-existent and medically unnecessary treatments. The indictment also alleges that Garcia and Freire laundered the proceeds of their crimes by sending proceeds to sham management and marketing companies owned and controlled by their co-conspirators.

Garcia and Freire are charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to cause the submission of false claims to the Medicare program, and to pay health care kickbacks; one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; one count of conspira
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