Manuel J. Fernandez, MD, an internist from Miami, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $656,000 in restitution for committing Medicaid fraud, according to a Crestview News Bulletin report.
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Ken Beverly, former president and CEO of Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, Ga., has been accused of falsifying documents to the Georgia Department of Community Health in order to pocket $9 million in Medicaid funds that were not rightfully due,…
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