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A Boca Raton osteopathic physician Dr. Max Citrin has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly copying and pasting false symptoms for his patients. Citrin was charged with three felonies for submitting fraudulent claims to Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and Humana, totaling nearly 1 million dollars.

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Teresa Johnson of Lecanto has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid while working as a bookkeeper for the now-closed Christ Medical Center. According to Johnson’s plea statement, she knowingly billed Medicaid and Medicare for services the now deceased clinic owner did not perform. She also ordered tests she knew were not medically necessary.

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Five people have been charged with patient brokering, insurance fraud, money laundering, and racketeering in connection with a scam that raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. Authorities allege that hundreds of prescriptions, many of them fraudulent, were sent to Express Care Pharmacy with prices ranging from $646 to $5,614. Many of the prescriptions were forged, unnecessary, or submitted without the patients or treating physician’s consent, according to the police report.

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