- Las Vegas nurse practitioner Marizel Yukee is charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme targeting Medicare and TRICARE.
- Prosecutors allege Yukee used funds from the scheme to purchase luxury items, including a $594,000 Ferrari, an $865,000 necklace, a Hawaii home, and helped fund a Philippines resort.
- The scheme involved billing for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, procured through illegal kickbacks, and falsifying patient medical records.
- Yukee is accused of targeting elderly and terminally ill Medicare patients through four mobile wound clinics she owned in different states.
- Her charges include conspiracy to commit wire and healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., illegal healthcare kickbacks, and transactional money laundering, as part of a wider crackdown on 455 defendants.
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