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Miami Herald - June 30, 2009
Dr. Roberto Rodriguez, 54, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Paul Huck to pay more than $9 million in restitution to Medicare. Rodriguez was co-owner of Midway Medical Center and director of other local HIV infusion clinics, where he and five convicted co-conspirators recruited patients, paid kickbacks and manipulated records to bilk Medicare, records show.
Rodriguez admitted his clinics submitted more than $20 million in false claims to Medicare from October 2003 to February 2005.
Another physician in the racket, Dr. Carmen del Cueto, is scheduled to be sentenced in September.
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