Fla. Trio Pleads Guilty in DME Scam

Three people involved with a Miami-based medical billing company have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit health care fraud in connection with nearly $420 million in phony billings to Medicare for durable medical equipment, officials said last week.U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and federal investigators jointly announced the guilty plea entered in federal court in Miami last Wednesday by Abner Diaz, Mabel Diaz and Suleidy Cano in connection with Medicare billings submitted through All-Med Billing Co.Abner Diaz and his wife, Mabel, owned th...