"Nurse Practitioner Found Guilty in Massive $200M Medicare Fraud Case"
A Florida nurse practitioner, Elizabeth Hernandez, has been convicted of health-care conspiracy and other charges for her involvement in a scheme that defrauded Medicare of over $200 million. Hernandez participated in a broad scheme where telemarketing companies convinced Medicare patients to request unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests. She fraudulently billed Medicare for these services, even though she had never examined or treated many of the patients. Hernandez personally profited $1.6 million from the scheme, using the money for luxury purchases. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 14 and faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison.