{"id":365,"date":"2015-08-08T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=365"},"modified":"2015-08-07T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T00:23:16","slug":"hialeah-pharmacy-owner-pleads-guilty-to-1-6m-medicare-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah pharmacy owner pleads guilty to $1.6M Medicare fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"detail__meta__byline\">Nina Lincoff<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"detail__meta__byline-info\">South Florida Business Journal)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hialeah resident and pharmacy owner Tamara Esponda pleaded guilty Friday to her involvement in an $1.6 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Florida.\u00a0Esponda pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud, and her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 13. Esponda, 47, was indicted in June as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud takedown that authorities called the largest in U.S. history. Another of the indicted South Florida pharmacy owners pleaded guilty in July. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/southflorida\/news\/2015\/08\/07\/hialeah-pharmacy-owner-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Nina Lincoff,\u00a0South Florida Business Journal) Hialeah resident and pharmacy owner Tamara Esponda pleaded guilty Friday to her involvement in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}