Fugitive
Pablo Piedra Perez
Fugitive Status | sentenced |
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Charges | Health care fraud |
Amount of Arrears | $679,715 |
Investigation Details
On April 11, 2014, Pablo Piedra Perez was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months in jail and ordered to pay $679,715 in restitution after pleading guilty to a charge of health care fraud. Perez was arrested in September 2013 in Texas after reentering the United States from Mexico.
According to court documents, Perez was the sole officer and registered agent of ECY Pharmacy Discount, Inc. (ECY), a community pharmacy in Miami, Florida. Perez fraudulently obtained the names, Medicare numbers, and other patient-identifying information of Medicare beneficiaries. He used this information to submit claims to Medicare for prescription drugs and other medical services that were never provided to the beneficiaries. Physicians who purportedly authorized the prescriptions denied ever having treated the beneficiaries.
As a result of these fraudulent claims, Perez caused Medicare to make payments to ECY Pharmacy in the approximate amount of $969,245.
- Health Care Fraud