德州 Harlingen 夫妇骗取医保约1,400万美元判刑：丈夫获刑110个月、妻子80个月
联邦检察官办公室（德州南区）宣布，德州 Harlingen 市居民 Jeremiah Yzaguirre（47岁）与妻子 Maria Luisa Yzaguirre（47岁）因经营医疗设备公司骗取联邦医疗保险（Medicare）约1,400万美元，分别被判处110个月和80个月联邦监禁。
联邦法官 Fernando Rodriguez Jr. 作出上述判决。两人刑满后还须接受3年监管释放，并被责令向 Medicare 支付9,248,976美元赔偿金，另处罚款25,000美元。
两人经营位于 Harlingen 的耐用医疗设备公司 Southwest Medical Homepatient，该公司在 Medicare 登记为供应商，声称提供电动轮椅零部件与维修服务。检方指，两人在2019年至2023年间，仅针对37名 Medicare 受益人，就电动轮椅、零部件与维修向 Medicare 开出约1,400万美元账单，其间多次对单个受益人的轮椅申报数百次零部件更换；仅针对其中一名受益人，两人就虚报更换昂贵零部件数百次，开出约736,072美元账单。
两人在认罪时承认，他们收取了数百万美元，用于从未实际提供或完成的零部件与维修，并将诈骗所得用于购买加密货币、车辆、电子产品、收藏品与手袋等。两人于2025年4月22日认罪。此案由联邦调查局（FBI）、卫生与公众服务部督察长办公室等机构调查，助理联邦检察官 Andrew Swartz 与 Ana Cano 负责起诉。
来源：GSM·美国
Harlingen Couple Sentenced in $14 Million Medicare Fraud: Husband Gets 110 Months, Wife 80 Months
A Harlingen, Texas, couple who ran a durable medical equipment company that defrauded Medicare of roughly $14 million have been sentenced to federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas announced. Jeremiah Yzaguirre, 47, received 110 months, and his wife, Maria Luisa Yzaguirre, 47, received 80 months.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. imposed the sentences. Both must also serve three years of supervised release and were ordered to pay $9,248,976 in restitution to Medicare and a $25,000 fine.
The couple operated Southwest Medical Homepatient in Harlingen, enrolled in Medicare as a provider of durable medical equipment and services that purported to supply parts and repairs for power wheelchairs. Prosecutors said that between 2019 and 2023 the couple caused Medicare to be billed approximately $14 million for power wheelchairs, parts and repairs for only 37 individual beneficiaries, repeatedly billing hundreds of parts and repairs for a single beneficiary's wheelchair. For one beneficiary alone, they billed about $736,072 by falsely claiming to have replaced expensive parts hundreds of times.
As part of their guilty pleas, both admitted they were paid millions of dollars for parts and repairs never actually performed or provided, and that proceeds went to cryptocurrency, a vehicle, electronics, collectibles and purses. The couple pleaded guilty on April 22, 2025. The FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General were among the agencies that investigated the case, prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrew Swartz and Ana Cano.
Source: GSM·USA
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图片来源：电动轮椅（资料图）。该案诈骗标的即为电动轮椅零部件与维修费用。 Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
