Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleLas Vegas nurse practitioner Marizel Yukee is charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme targeting Medicare and TRICARE. Prosecutors allege Yukee used funds from the scheme to purchase luxury items, including a $594,000 Ferrari, an $865,000 necklace, a Hawaii home, and helped fund a Philippines resort. The scheme involved billing for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, procured through illegal kickbacks, and falsifying patient medical records. Yukee is accused of targeting elderly and terminally ill Medicare patients through four mobile wound clinics she owned in different states. Her charges include conspiracy to commit wire and healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., illegal healthcare kickbacks, and transactional money laundering, as part of a wider crackdown on 455 defendants. In fullNurse charged in massive healthcare fraud spent money on $594,000 Ferrari: DOJThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Nurse accused of funding Philippines resort from multi-state medicare fraud scheme
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleLas Vegas nurse practitioner Marizel Yukee is charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme targeting Medicare and TRICARE. Prosecutors allege Yukee used funds from the scheme to purchase luxury items, including a $594,000 Ferrari, an $865,000 necklace, a Hawaii home, and helped fund a Philippines resort. The scheme involved billing for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, procured through illegal kickbacks, and falsifying patient medical records. Yukee is accused of targeting elderly and terminally ill Medicare patients through four mobile wound clinics she owned in different states. Her charges include conspiracy to commit wire and healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., illegal healthcare kickbacks, and transactional money laundering, as part of a wider crackdown on 455 defendants. In fullNurse charged in massive healthcare fraud spent money on $594,000 Ferrari: DOJThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
