November 21, 2017
Sila Luis, the owner and operator of two defunct Miami home health agencies, was sentenced to 80 months in prison and pay $45 million in restitution, for her role in a $74 million conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program. As part of her guilty plea, Luis admitted that she and her co-conspirators operated LTC Professional Consultants Inc. to fraudulently bill the Medicare program for home health care services, including diabetic injections, skilled nursing visits, physical therapy, and other treatments and services. Professional Home Care Solutions Inc. was another home health agency under Luis’s ownership and control that was involved in the conspiracy. Luis further admitted that she and her co-conspirators paid patient recruiters kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries to LTC. DOJ
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