Yukee..

 

Several hundreds have been charged (1) with taking part in multibillion dollar healthcare fraud schemes, the Department of Justice announced this week, as part of its annual National Health Care Fraud Takedown initiative.

One that stands out is that of a 49-year-old nurse practitioner Mariel Yukee from Las Vegas (2). Yukee, who operates mobile wound clinics in four states, is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and healthcare fraud, as well as offering, paying, soliciting, and receiving illegal healthcare kickbacks. Not to mention, money laundering.

According to government officials, Yukee targeted terminally ill elderly Medicare patients in hospice care and billed Medicare and TRICARE for $906 million in unnecessary amniotic wound allografts. 

She allegedly applied allografts, tissue taken from human donors and used as an alternative to synthetic implants in patients, to wounds that had already healed, and to wounds that were not responding to the treatment.

Yukee then allegedly falsified patient medical data to make it appear like the allografts were necessary. Of the $906 million in fraudulent claims filed by the accused, an estimated $297 million was paid out.

Comment:    How compassionate!!!