Man arrested at airport for health care fraud pleads guilty
By HME News Staff
Updated 11:30 AM CDT, Mon August 8, 2022
MIAMI - Ariel Madero Paez, 56, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Ft. Pierce to fraudulently billing Medicare over $2 million for durable medical equipment that was never provided to beneficiaries. According to court records, from November 2021 through May 2022, Always submitted approximately $2.2 million in fraudulent health care claims to Medicare for DME that Always never provided, and that Medicare beneficiaries never requested. As a result, Medicare paid over $1.4 million. After Madero’s arrest on May 6, 2022, at the Miami International Airport, bank accounts for Always and Madero had a sum of more than $500,000 derived from or traceable to the health care fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks will sentence Madero on Oct. 5.
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