On Friday, Department of Justice announced, Carlos Rodriguez Nerey, a patient recruiter for numerous Miami-area home health agencies was convicted for his role in a fraud and kickback scheme that resulted in the submission of millions of dollars in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.
Mr. Nerey was convicted of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive health care kickbacks and one count of receiving health care kickbacks.
The allegations arose from a lawsuit, alleging Mr. Nerey claimed to work at a staffing company called Sweet Life Staffing Inc. but was in fact a patient recruiter for D&D&D Home Health Inc and Mercy Home Care Inc, two fraudulent home health care agencies in Miami.
Evidence proved Carlos Rodriguez Nerey worked for numerous fraudulent home health care companies before he began accepting kickbacks from D&D&D Home Health Inc and Mercy Home Care Inc.
Mr. Nerey developed a shell company for the purpose of accepting kickbacks from for D&D&D Home Health Inc and Mercy Home Care Inc and received nearly $250,000 for his role in the scheme.
Medicare paid over $2 million to D&D&D Home Health Inc and Mercy Home Care Inc for those claims.