Father and Son Charged in $28 Million Health-Care Fraud Scheme

Two Florida men were arraigned for their roles in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment and prescription drug health-care fraud and kickback scheme, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

According to the DOJ, Nicholas Alberino and his son, Nicholas Alberino, operated five Florida companies, each of which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions for certain expensive medications as well as DME such as orthotic braces through a telemarketing and telemedicine scheme.

The DOJ said that the Alberinos specifically sought to identify and target Medicare beneficiaries and call centers contacted the beneficiaries by telephone and pressured them to accept the expensive medications and DME. ...