Clinic Staffers Jailed for Medicare Fraud

Four staff members of a Miami HIV infusion clinic have been sentenced to federal prison in connection with more than $10 million in illegal billings to Medicare based on the manipulation of blood samples.U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta announced Friday that Alexis Dagnesses, 44, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $12.4 million to the Medicare program in connection to his role in the Medicare billing scheme at Midway Medical Center in Miami and based on money he received for phony blood samples he supplied to two other Miami-area clinics.Gonzalo Nodarse, 38, was s...