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Rodriguez was indicted in , along with two other doctors in connection witha $10 millioh Medicare fraud scheme. He pleaded guilty in to conspiracgy to commit healthcare fraud. Rodriguez was a co-ownert of and physician at MidwayMedicall Center, a Miami clinic that purported to specialize in the treatmenr of HIV patients, according to a news release from the U.S. Departmenyt of Justice. He admitted while at Midway, he and his co-conspiratorsx billed Medicare for services that were medically unnecessargy and in many instancesnevedr provided.
He also admitted that he purchased only a smalo amount of the drugs that he claimed to administerr to patients and that he falsifiedmedical records, according to the news Rodriguez also admitted that he was listed as medical director and practicing physician for five othet Miami-area HIV infusion clinics between October 2003 and Februarhy 2005, where he engaged in similar He admitted to filing more than $20 milliojn in false claims. Several of Rodriguez’s co-defendantzs have already been sentencedd for their roles at Midway andrelated clinics.