Tag: Medicare Scam
James Robert Johnson, Medicare Fraud, Virginia 2020
⏱ 2 min read Tri-Area Community Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Roanoke, VA, has been caught bilking Medicare out of $513,000. For nearly four years, the clinic faked doctor’s supervision on Annual Wellness Visits, raking in the cash for phony medical exams. Between August 2022 and December 2025, pharmacists at the clinic performed…
Nestor Jaime, Medicare Fraud, New Jersey 2021
⏱ 2 min read Nestor Jaime, a Pine Brook, New Jersey, pharmacist, made a fortune by fleecing Medicare for $2.5 million. Over two years, from 2019 to 2021, Jaime submitted hundreds of fake claims for Dificid, a medication worth over $4,000 per prescription. But he didn’t bother buying or dispensing it. Jaime, through his Paterson…
Christian ‘Chris’ Cruz, Medicare Fraud, Florida 2023
⏱ 2 min read A ruthless Medicare scam that bilked the system for $11.4 million has landed a Florida nursing assistant a 9-year prison sentence. Christian ‘Chris’ Cruz, 45, of Pompano Beach, operated a durable medical equipment supplier in Florida that submitted false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces. Cruz paid kickbacks and…
Robert Charles Bowen, Hospice Scam, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read In a shocking case of health care fraud, eight defendants, including three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist, were arrested in Los Angeles for scheming to defraud the nation’s health care system out of over $50 million. The scam involved running sham hospice care facilities that bilked Medicare by using people…
