Miami Herald reports Miami mother and son Medicare fraud duo of Angie's Home Health Care Inc. sentenced to jail, $1,566,288 in restitution
Mom and Son Sentenced in Medicare Fraud
Pair will have to pay back $1.5 million taken in scheme
By Brian Hamacher
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 | Updated 12:25 PM EDT
A Miami mother and son Medicare fraud duo were sentenced Monday in a scheme that bilked the program out of over $1.5 million, federal prosecutors said.
Angela Bustillo, 57, was sentenced to 71 months in prison and son Alfredo Morrera, 30, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for their roles in the scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
Both will have to pay back $1,566,288 in restitution and will serve three years of supervised release at the end of their prison sentences.
According to prosecutors, Bustillo and Morrera owned and operated Angie's Home Health Care Inc., a Miami-Dade based home health agency that provided nursing services to homebound Medicare beneficiaries.
But prosecutors say the company gave care to patients who didn't need it and billed Medicare for the unnecessary services. Morrera told patients to give false info so they would qualify for home health services, even though they didn't, prosecutors said.
Angie's also paid kickbacks to nurses and recruiters who paid Medicare beneficiaries who agreed to be treated at Angie's, prosecutors said.
Mother and son submitted $2,295,139 in false claims to Medicare, with Medicare paying out $1,566,288.
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