The 45-year-old nurse practitioner is accused of signing thousands of documents ordering a plethora of unnecessary medical items and tests.
A Miami jury convicted a Florida nurse practitioner in federal court of defrauding Medicare out of more than $200 million in a scheme to order and bill an astounding amount of"medically unnecessary" tests and medical devices, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ said Hernandez was convicted by a Miami jury on one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, along with four other counts of health care fraud and three counts of making false statements. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for the conspiracy count, along with 10 years in prison for each of the fraud counts plus five years for each false statement count. Hernandez is scheduled to be sentenced in December.
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