Legal Opinion
United States v. Mateos
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 19, 2010No. 08-17178PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.):
Dr. Ana Alvarez and Nurse Sandra Mateos were employees at St. Jude Rehabilitation Center during its brief time as an operating clinic in 2003. St. Jude was ostensibly an HIV treatment center, but it was established as a front for a massive Medicare scam. The fraud involved falsely diagnosing patients with a condition that would justify treatments of WinRho, an expensive drug reimbursable by Medicare at a rate of about $4,900 per treatment to St. Jude. Because the treatment was medically unnecessary, employees at St. Jude would purchase only a small fraction…
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