Medicare Fraud Criminal Plea. An unlicensed Detroit-area physician pleaded guilty to billing Medicare for $11.5 million and making it look like the healthcare services were performed by licensed medical doctors when they were not. Jose Mercado-Francis, MD faces 10 years imprisonment when he is sentenced.
This case does not appear to have been initiated by the filing of a civil qui tam False Claims Act complaint.
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