Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and returned to the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.
Caridad Guilarte, 54, and Clara Guilarte, 56, ran a clinic in Dearborn, Michigan, that billed about $9 million in claims for treatments patients never received, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.
The sisters collected more than $4 million from Medicare for drug therapies that were never provided, according to the HHS website.
After the FBI interviewed them, the two sisters fled, said Barbara McQuade, the U.S. attor
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