Orlando Bustabad is your typical Medicare crook: As the ringleader of a Miami-Dade pharmacy racket, he submitted $10 million in bogus bills to the taxpayer-funded program and pocketed a small fortune.

Medicare's annual open enrollment period for health plans and prescription drug coverage runs until Dec. 7. Experts say it's worthwhile for Medicare's 67.8 million beneficiaries to make sure they ...

In 2000, 'The Tipping Point' examined how social trends happen. When author Malcolm Gladwell returned to his theories, he came to Miami – and what he found wasn't pretty.

A decade ago, Ariel Nunez Finalet played a supporting role in a Miami-area racket that used local pharmacies to submit about $17 million in phony prescription drug claims to Medicare for patients ...

Included in the list is Lawrence Duran, the owner of a Miami-based health care company who was convicted in 2011 of defrauding Medicare out of $87 million and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

A Miami- area nurse practitioner on Thursday was sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally signing thousands of orders for medical equipment and genetic tests while submitting $192 million in ...

Jeffrey Veltri, the special agent in charge of the FBI Miami Field Office, described the millionaire, Minal Patel, as the brains behind “a complex” operation that stole over $187 million from ...

How Medicare fraud became Miami's vice. In 2019, Philip Esformes went on trial for one of the biggest Medicare fraud cases in history. His longtime family rabbi said Philip Esformes was an ...