Speak No Evil: Miami Speech Therapists Arrested for Medicaid Fraud
Four suspects were employees at The Center for Bilingual Speech and Language Disorder
Nick Koudis
The FBI has arrested 3 doctors and 8 'professional patients' in Brooklyn for allegedly submitting thousands of bogus medical claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
Four Miami-Dade speech therapists were arrested Wednesday, accused of bilking the state Medicaid system out of $540,000 by making false reimbursement claims.
The group all worked at The Center for Bilingual Speech and Language Disorder in Miami.
Elaine Marie Camps, 34, of Miami; Juliane Sardina, 39, of Miami Beach; Mayra Romero, 46, of Miami; and Samara Gabriel Glyn, 27, of Miami were all booked in Miami-Dade County jail on charges ranging from fraud to grand theft.
For three and a half years, the four women billed the Medicaid program for unsupervised speech therapy, which is against the law.
"Medicaid fraud and those who commit it steal critical health care dollars from our citizens who actually need medical services,” Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said in a press release regarding the arrests.
