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Durable Medical Equipment Company Received Kickbacks from Pharmacy Owners<\/a> in Health Care Fraud Case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a Medicare fraud case<\/a> of interest to whistleblowers and whistleblower attorneys, a Miami a federal jury convicted a home health care operator of conspiracy to defraud and submit false claims<\/a> and receive kickbacks, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and three counts of receiving kickbacks. Gisela Valladares, owner of PRN Home Health Care, Inc., faces up to 30 years in prison. <\/p>\n

According to the Justice Department, two pharmacy owners billed Medicare for more than $20 million in connection with the referral of false prescriptions for “compounded” aerosol medications furnished by Valladares and other co-conspirator owners of durable medical equipment (DME) companies. The pharmacy owners paid kickbacks of approximately half of the money paid by Medicare. <\/p>\n

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Durable Medical Equipment Company Received Kickbacks from Pharmacy Owners in Health Care Fraud Case In a Medicare fraud case of interest to whistleblowers and whistleblower attorneys, a Miami a federal jury convicted a home health care operator of conspiracy to defraud and submit false claims and receive kickbacks, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-claims-act","category-health-care-fraud","category-medicare-and-medicaid-fraud","category-pharmaceutical-fraud","category-recent-developments"],"yoast_head":"\nMedicare Fraud Convictions for Florida Home Health Care Operator for False Claims — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — July 6, 2007<\/title>\n<meta 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