The massive federal raid at a prominent Brownsville physician's home on Charmaine Lane Wednesday was authorized by a search warrant issued in furtherance of an ongoing medical fraud investigation that included the prosecution of a physicians assistant who worked in his wife's chiropractic and counseling clinics, sources assert.
Some 40 to 50 federal agents swooped on Dr. Alberto Almeida's home at 3702 Charmanine Lane to execute the search warrant related to the Medicare fraud investigation of Physician Assistant Fernando Mendez who had been indicted for practicing with a suspended license at CCI Therapy Counseling Centers International, one of which is located at 908 Paredes Line Road in Brownsville and managed by Almeida's wife Sandra Garcia.
Almeida's attorney Louis Sorola said his client had no role in the alleged fraud and said he had requested an explanation from the FBI on the scope and authority of the search.
"Apparently, the raid was a result of evidence that they received from Mendez after his arrest last September," Sorola said. "This came out if the blue for Dr. Almeida. My client had nothing to do with the operations at CCI."Mendez was indicted and arrested on September 2022 over the alleged crimes, according to a press release issued last September by U.S. Attorney Jennifer Lowery. The raids, some speculate, may have been the result of evidence provided by Mendez to the government on his employment at the CCI center here.
The Texas Medical Board suspended Mendez's license to practice medicine as a physician's assistant July 20, 2021 deeming him to be a "continuing threat to public welfare" but he continued to practice in various mental health clinics across the Rio Grande Valley and billed his services to Medicare.
The USAO's statement said Mendez would bill under the names of physicians who he knew were out of the country and filed bogus reports to the Texas Medical Board to conceal his improper practice of medicine.
41 comments:
Sorola?
Well, Montoya will be kind on this one.
Fo'Sure!
A late client of mine did 5 years in the federal penitentiary. He was in recovery for a kidney transplant when the PA did all of the alleged wrongdoing. I was not involved in the case. I learned after he got out of prison.
I reviewed the federal pleadings and because he was the sponsoring doctor for the PA, he was accountable for the acts of the PA. Three months after the Covid vaccine came out because of all the corruption in Dallas he died of Covid because not even the transplant facility could get him the vaccine.
All over Texas doctors are opening multiple clinics and hiring PAs. The doctor is never there. They have far too many clinics.
The feds are aware of this and we can expect more indictments.
Also know when you call for an appointment demand your appointment is with the actual doctor and not a PA or Nurse Practitioner. There are many great PA's and nurse practitioners out there. But there is also too much fraud.
There will be more indictments. Under the law it does not matter if the doctor was involved. The doctor has a duty to oversee the PA. This simple rule caused my former client 5 years in federal prison.
I am not saying anyone is guilty, but based on my friends case, because he failed to supervise the PA while recovering from a kidney transplant he went to jail.
Bobby WC
Que wild!
Tough Christmas present, huh?
Oh, man. There go the holidays.
Y el pseudo Dr. Eder que?
The whole medical profession/business in this country is rotten.
Rotten, I tell you!
Walk into an Emergency Room and, instantly, you're down $1,000!
Saw some feds agents outside the house doing the Griddy!
Too many FBI agents for this piece of s*** all you need is to show up with three or four FBI agents
Federal agents find classified documents in a Trump storage warehouse. Donald can no longer escape arrest and jailing.
Russia will trade that arms dealer/terrorist Russian guy we gave back to them to free Brittany Griner if we hand over Trump.
Hand his stinking fat ass over today!!!!
El Jerry McHale headline:
REGENT MIKE HERNANDEZ BRINGS TEXAS A&M & TSC TOGETHER!!!
(It wasn't that long ago that El Jerry wrote shit about Mike "El Moco" Hernandez)
ja ja ja jaja
The city hired a so call doctor some time back what hoppon?
All the time I go see a doctor, a PA is there and I have been going to see this doctor for about 8 years I do not know the doctor, he has never seen me and I have never seen him. If I see him any where I will not recognise him cause I see only the PA.
IS THIS CORRECT? IS IT LEGAL? I understand that all doctors do that, but 8 years?
Yes, it is common now for so many doctors to assign their PA to do their
work for them and the doctor never sees that patient. I had a horrible
experience in a procedure done by the PA and I informed my primary doctor
of the incident. I have a real professional doctor who took it upon himself to speak with the doctor and requested that I be seen by him directly the
next time I was referred to him. He did attend to me the next time and no
problem.
Then I did get a bill from the PA but the doctor had signed the report.
How does that work. If the doctor is in direct control of the situation,
why does he/she allow these things to happen. Yes, I say, the doctor who is 'superving the PA should also be held accountable.
Maybe this raid was due to the possibility of records being held in their
home to prevent discovery of misdeeds? Who can we trust now?
Y el Edward bustos con su ged? Ese si es rata, al rato caΓ.
Ese vato es una verga la verdad.. ningΓΊn cabron le llega a los talones. Un PA bien verga como el no hay. La neta. Lloren los k lloren. Tiene miles de pacientes.
El Jerry se doblo frente a Mike Hernandez, bro.
se la mamo?
Dicen que maybe. Le llegan golpes a McHale y se raja, el guey!
Puro RATISMO AQUI, doctores, politicos, mojados, hillbillys, gringos, special abogados/as, politicos (dos veces) compadres, comadres, cronys y mas cronys. Leave anybody out let me know, or print it here. Law enforcement but they never catch them, juezes paper pushers, teachers.
CORRUPT BROWNSVILLE AT ITS BEST!!!
pobres jardineros, janitors and maintenance people these are the true honest people in the planet.
Elon Musk Has Lost Sight of What Matters
you can blame el enano for that idiota!
doctors should be doctors not accountants
Nobody here cares about El Paya or El Pendejo.
What do El Paya and Captain Bob have in common? A los dos les pusieron el cuerno...both need the blue pill...both stink...both are losers and the list goes on
El Paya Jerry McHale was called out by Pat Ahumada at a bar and Paya begged-off a fight. Witnesses.
McHale is all hot air. Chapete!
This overdue corruption has been going on for years in the State of Texas. The Texas Medical Board is the main institution who is responsible for all of this Medicare and Medicaid Fraud. They failed to monitor these corrupt schemes and follow-up on these convicted criminals. These corrupt doctors who are sanctioned by the Tex. Medical Board and label these doctors a threat to the public welfares are official convicted by the Medical Board. This conviction by the Tex. Med. Board should be recognized by our local law-enforcement, the judicial and the Dist. Attorney. We can give Thanks to our so-called Eddie Lucio for covering up their miss deeds to and if they, doctors, do Committe murder they, Doctors , only pay $250,000 fine. Hope they make bologna out of him someday. God forgive us
@ 8:06 am pinche mayate pendejo
Now if only the FBI could do this at PUB, guess time will tell. Just when you think you got away with it BANG!!
At 8:06 am: Pobre Vato Pendejo. Fah Q and your 84 comebacks to my one comment. Get some treatment dude, because you got way too angry at one comment fool. You can call me a gringo all u want because you’re a RACIST but I don’t need to shout in my commemts, mojado, because that’s all u are. By the way, F you and go sleep with your college professor groomers that convinced you that you’re smart, IDIOTA
December 10, 2022 at 3:04 PM, December 10, 2022 at 10:18 PM
your 9 indicates you are a ninito. go back to your crib and wait for your tittie and to be burp later by your mommie. This is an adult blog with adult themes. What future we have when they are born pendejos - NONE!!!!
WTF is a 9? Dickhead
No speakie Inglee guy is upset. Must be the cocos and hillbillies again. π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£ I have my π° on corrupt beaners π²π½π²π½π²π½π²π½π²π½. Because that's what's in Brownsville amigo! πππ²π½
At least Brownsville'a Eder Hernandez PA (π€‘) wasn't involved. He already made his money.
Aha!!!! So no speakie good Inglee is a janitor! I knew it. Sounds like one. Keep working for gringo! I need my gimme gimme gimme welfare check π²π½π²π½π²π½π²π½πππ°π€‘π€£π€£π€£π€£
When is Elon sending Brownsville Mexicans into space so gringos can finally get some peace?
Whose doctor's pin number was this physician assistant, Fernado Mendez using to bill the medical services? Physician's assistant do not have a Texas Medical doctors license. They are supposed to work under the Primary care doctor. If this Dr. Almeida was allowing this criminal to use his doctor pin # to bill than Almeida knowingly, intentionally, willingly allowed for this corrupt scheme to continue all for his share of the profits. According to his attorney this came out of the blue. No sir, this cheat was way overdue.
What about pseudo Dr. Eder?
Inmediatamente pensΓ© en pinche Eder
December 11, 2022 at 11:48 AM
TYPICAL IDIOTA pendejo das what it is guey πΆ️πΆ️maricon suck on it coco/gringo mamon
griddy your ass joto
December 10, 2022 at 3:04 PM
so you love mayates figures maricon
December 10, 2022 at 10:18 PM
hillbilly idiota mamon go look for work its time you huevones start working welfare pidiches, gimme gimme gimme mamones
Dr Rocco never services her clients. They are all pa.s . Prescribing Motrin for everything. My kids got infections and it was motrin. Had to go to mexico for treatment after a month they were sick..
Her billing is always on time with her name as the provider. Pulled all my kids shortly after that..
Hillbilly/coco/gringo wanna be a teacher but can't ain't got the smarts is trying to correct people that post comments on this blog
for your information idiota pendejo ths es a blog whics r non formal as long as the reader can understood all is fine PENDEJO. IT was designed for hillbillys la raza mas pendeja y estupida en el mundo, pinche hillbilly/coco/gringo idiota.
you ain't a teacher never will be YOU ARE TOOOO ESTUPIDO TO BE ONE AND YOU NEVER WENT TO ANY SCHOOL. PINCHE IDIOTA PENDEJO.ππ΅ππ΅ππ΅πΆ️πΆ️πΆ️AQUI ESTA TU CHILEπΆ️PINCHE π
πππππππππππ No speakie Inglee makes this blog entertaining. Best it's ever been. π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£
La Dr. Rocco is over rated. Es puro pedo.
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