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Barbara Kram, Editor | March 25, 2009
Like Rodriguez, Garrido was a part-owner and practicing physician at Midway. In his plea, Garrido admitted that he and his co-conspirators routinely billed the Medicare program for services that were medically unnecessary and, in many instances, never provided. Garrido admitted to purchasing only a small fraction of the medication that was purportedly being administered to Midway's patients. Garrido ordered that patients be treated with medications he knew they did not need and that, in many instances, he knew the clinic did not have available to provide to the patients. Garrido admitted to working at Midway for approximately eight months before the clinic closed, during which time he admitted to submitting more than $1 million in fraudulent claims to the Medicare program.
Nodarse and Carrazana worked at Midway as medical assistants. In their pleas, the two assistants admitted to making false entries in medical records indicating that they had provided medications on particular dates and in particular dosages to patients, when, in fact, they had not provided medications. The medical assistants also admitted to being fully aware that blood samples drawn from Midway's patients were tainted to make it appear that the patients had conditions they did not have. Both assistants admitted to administering medications to patients that they knew the patients did not need. Nodarse, who worked at Midway throughout its existence, admitted to conspiring to submit more than $10 million in false and fraudulent claims for HIV infusion services allegedly provided at the clinic.
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The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney John K. Neal of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. The FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, conducted the investigation. The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF), supervised by Deputy Chief Kirk Ogrosky of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and U.S. Attorney Acosta of the Southern District of Florida. Since the inception of MFSF operations, federal prosecutors have indicted 106 cases with 192 defendants in both Los Angeles and Miami. Collectively, these defendants fraudulently billed the Medicare program for more than half a billion dollars.
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