Nurse CHARGED In $906 Million Medicare Fraud As Feds SEIZE Ferrari & $865K Necklace

Federal agents seized a Ferrari, an $865,000 Bulgari necklace and more than $50 million in assets from a Las Vegas nurse practitioner who ran wound care clinics in four states, including one in Pearland, Texas. Prosecutors say she billed Medicare and the military’s TRICARE more than $906 million for skin grafts that elderly and dying patients did not need. In this video: What an allograft is, and why Medicare’s bill for these products went from under $1 billion to almost $15 billion in five years Mobile clinics that went into nursing homes and hospices, and grafts put on wounds that had already healed Patients who prosecutors say died within days of the procedure $16 million in alleged kickbacks, and a $1,600 product billed at $3,900 A separate $1.2 billion skin graft case in Las Vegas, part of a $6.5 billion national takedown Sources: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, U.S. Department of Justice, ABC13 Houston, KTNV 13 Investigates, 8 News Now Las Vegas. The defendant is charged, not convicted, and presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. #Medicare #HealthcareFraud #MedicareFraud #FraudInvestigation #TrueCrime