After rotating the blood in the centrifugefor approximately 15 minutes the blood would separate into its
After rotating the blood in the centrifugefor approximately 15 minutes, the blood would separate into its componentparts, enabling Dagnesses to extract the platelets from the sample. Specifically,Dagnesses would obtain vials of blood drawn from Midway’s patients and placethose vials in a blood centrifuge. Dagnesses’ admitted role at Midway was to manipulate the blood samples drawnfrom the clinic’s patients before the blood was sent to a laboratory foranalysis, so that the resulting laboratory reports would make it appear thatthe patients actually had dangerously low blood platelet counts. None of Midway’s patients actually had lowblood platelet counts. According to plea documents, most of the services allegedlyprovided to patients at Midway were billed to the Medicare program astreatments for a diagnosis of thrombocytopenia, a disorder involving a lowcount of platelets in the blood. Nodarse was sentenced to 78 months in prison,with a three-year-term of supervised release following his prison term, andwas ordered to pay $5.1 million in restitution. Carrazana was sentenced to 72months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and wasordered to pay $3.6 million in restitution.
Garrido was sentenced today to 37months in prison and three years of supervised release, and was ordered by thejudge to pay $747,000 in restitution. All four defendants had admitted to working at Midway Medical Center Inc.(Midway), a Miami clinic that purported to specialize in the treatment ofpatients with HIV. Today, Judge Huck sentenced Dagnesses to 90 months in prison, to be followedby a three-year-term of supervised release. Dagnesses was also ordered to pay$12.4 million in restitution. Alexander Acosta of the SouthernDistrict of Florida announced. Alexis Dagnesses, 44; Gonzalo Nodarse, 38; Alexis Carrazana, 41; and Dr.Carlos Garrido, 69, all pleaded guilty in March 2009 to one count ofconspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S District Judge Paul C.Huck. WellsExecutive Vice President and CFO10172 Linn Station RoadLouisville, Kentucky 40223(502) 426-4800Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-.
Defendants admitted to conspiring to defraud Medicare at HIV infusion clinicsWASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four Miami-area residents weresentenced today in connection with a $10 million Medicare fraud schemeinvolving HIV infusion clinics, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A Breuer ofthe Criminal Division and U.S Attorney R. These properties are located in and aroundLouisville and Lexington, Kentucky, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee,Richmond, Virginia, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Indianapolis,Indiana and Atlanta, Georgia.Contact:Gregory A. NTS also manages 14 otherapartment communities (a total of 6,000 units) and 31 commercialproperties comprising in excess of 5 million square feet of office,retail and warehouse space. NTS has plans forenhancements and renovations to the property.With the acquisition of Plainview Apartments, NTS Development Company andits affiliates now own a total of 4 apartment communities in Louisville,Kentucky which also include Hurstbourne Grand Apartments, The Overlook atSt Thomas and The Willows of Plainview. Plainview Apartmentsis just one property within the Plainview master planned community whichincludes 800 single-family homes, over one thousand apartments, 500townhomes, multiple shopping centers (which include big box and localretail) and nearly 2 million square feet of office and commercial space.NTS began construction and development of the Plainview community in theearly 1970s which was Louisville’s first totally planned community.Financing for the acquisition was provided by Old National Bank Occupancyat the time of the purchase was approximately 94%. Plainview Apartments offersstudio, one, two and three bedroom garden-style apartments, as well asseveral different townhome floorplans.