According to admissions made as part of their plea agreements, Bosch and Sanchez owned and operated East Medical Office Inc. (East), purportedly a pain management clinic, located at 3778 West 12th Avenue, in Hialeah. Bosch incorporated the cash-only clinic in April 2017 and ran it with Sanchez until their arrests on May 3, 2018. Bosch and Sanchez hired a physician to be the purported medical doctor of East because they knew the physician would write prescriptions for oxycodone without regard to medical necessity, they admitted. They paid the physician $125 for each prescription. They also admittedly conspired with patient recruiters and drug diverters to distribute oxycodone. Bosch introduced a purported patient recruiter to Abreu and informed the recruiter that the recruiter could make money by obtaining oxycodone pills from medically unnecessary prescriptions from East and then selling the pills, Bosh admitted. Additionally, Sanchez filled out fraudulent medical paperwork for purported patients, she admitted.
According to admissions made as part of her plea agreement, Abreu recruited her own patients to visit East. Abreu brought to East at least 18 individuals who paid approximately $250 for each purported “medical consultation” in order to receive controlled substances, especially , that were not medically necessary. Abreu’s recruits received prescriptions for at least 5,000 tablets of oxycodone 30 mg. Abreu also offered to purchase pills from another individual whom she believed was a patient recruiter at East, she admitted.
Ledif Acanda Machado, 39, of Miami, Florida, who was charged in this conspiracy, remains a fugitive.
This case was investigated by the FBI, HHS-OIG, USSS and the DEA. Trial Attorney Adam Yoffie of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is prosecuting the case.
The Fraud Section leads the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which is part of a joint initiative between the Department of Justice and HHS to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country. Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, now operating in 14 cities across the country, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion.
Right, The DEA Museum and Visitors Center; 700 Army Navy Drive in Arlington, Virginia. The Museum is located directly across the street from the Pentagon City Mall at the corner of Army Navy Drive and Hayes Street
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