Miami Physician's Assistant Receives Probation in Six-Count Fraud Convicti

Miami Physician's Assistant Receives Probation in Six-Count Fraud Conviction
April 4, 2005

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Diane Ward sentenced Federico Labrador, a physician's assistant who once was imprisoned as a political dissident in Cuba, to five years' probation after he was convicted for his role in an insurance-fraud scheme. Labrador was convicted on six counts of fraud and filing false auto insurance claims and cleared of six other counts.

Prosecutors told the Miami Herald that Labrador, a practicing doctor when he lived in Cuba, filed medical forms four years ago claiming he examined two auto-accident victims at a Miami clinic -- visits the patients themselves didn't know about.
In one case, Labrador filed a claim saying he examined a patient at Zigma Medical Care on the same day the patient was attending a family reunion in North Florida.

Investigators also said Labrador approved further medical treatment that allowed the clinic to bill each patient's insurer up to $10,000 for therapy that was not administered.

Assistant State Attorney William Howell asked the judge to sentence Labrador to 10 years in prison, describing Labrador as a key player in a ''well-oiled machine'' of bogus insurance claims.
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http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2005/04/04/53268.htm

...are big business in South Florida. Handing out probation and a withhold in cases like this is a joke.

of medical fraud scams operating in Florida, usually South Florida, and it seemed horrendous.

Miguel Recarey, Cuban "exile" close friend of Jeb Bush pulled off the largest medical fraud crime in history before he fled the country. He was never officially confronted over it, either.

Perhaps he claimed he was imprisoned for being a political dissident, but maybe he was really just a crook in Cuba too.

He could as easily have said he used to be King of Cuba, and we couldn't prove him wrong.



He 'scaped, when 'scapin' wasn't cool...

:sarcasm: