Hospital accused of Medicare fraud (Miami Herald) - Larkin Community Hospital, in South Miami, and many connected with it are alleged to have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars. [Healthcare Fraud News] According to this article, “At one point, the civil suit states state regulators found that half of all care being given in the small South Miami hospital was medically unnecessary.” The article describes two scams. The first scam involves alleged kickback payments to Jack Jacobo Michel, a physician who later bought the hospital. The second scam involves kickbacks to long-term care facilities, some of which were owned by Jack Jacobo Michel, who at that time, also owned the hospital. You’ll have to register at the Miami Herald to read the article, but it is worth it.