Two Miami Medical Clinics Raided for Staged Accidents & Insurance Fraud

Florida’s Department of Investigative and Forensic Services Bureau of Insurance Fraud and the Miami Police Department raided two South Florida medical clinics accused of paying for patients and fraudulent billing. Both clinics have been under investigation since early 2017 for recruiting people for staged accidents and billing insurance companies for thousands of dollars in treatments that they were not providing.

According to Captain Emissael Díaz of Florida’s Bureau of Insurance Fraud “Just in South Florida alone, most of your rates are going to go up 20 to 25 percent just because of the insurance fraud.” The captain stated that schemes of this kind are the reason insurance rates are going in South Florida.

The suspects taken into custody are facing several charges, including patient brokering, insurance fraud and grand theft.

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