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Miami Herald - January 9, 2009
Jay Weaver, jweaver@MiamiHerald.com
Orlando Pascual Jr., 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Miami federal court, admitting he participated in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks to patients to use their Medicare numbers to bilk the program.
Pascual and seven other defendants were charged with submitting false claims for HIV infusion therapy that was not provided to the patients from 2004 to 2006. The codefendants, including a physician accused of writing false prescriptions, are scheduled to stand trial beginning Feb. 9.
Pascual is in prison for Medicare fraud stemming from filing phony claims for medical equipment.
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