Doctors Face Charges for Giving HIV Patients Vitamins Instead of Medicine
June 19th, 2008 by flanewsFive Florida doctors and a health clinic owner are facing fraud charges. Florida�s Attorney General investigated the Esther Romeu health clinic in Miami. The AG�s office say doctors at the clinic cheated Medicare and Medicaid out of more than 15 million dollars. Victoria Langley Heller, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General, said the doctors were charging the programs for HIV drugs, pocketing the money, and injecting patients with vitamins.
�These Medicaid and Medicare dollars were suppose to go to help patients in need and instead apparently lined the pockets of five doctors and a clinic owner, the very people who we expect to take care of our injured and ill patients,� said Heller.
According to the AG�s office some of the patients received money from the doctors to play along.
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