Miami man gets 22 years for Medicare fraud

The Miami Herald reports:

A Miami man who used his chain of Medicare clinics to commit fraud and exported the business to other Southern states was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 22 years in prison.

The local organization run by Michel De Jesus Huarte -- which submitted about $100 million in bogus bills for HIV therapy and other services -- expanded to Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina by using empty storefronts and post office boxes, according to an indictment.

Huarte and his associates, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other fraud charges last year, collected about $25 million from the federal healthcare program, the indictment says.

You might ask how can ObamaCare deal with fraud when Medicare is a giant failure like this?