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Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years
Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years CLIFTON, N.J. — A medical equipment supply store owner from Clifton was sentenced Thursday to four years in state prison for billing Medicaid more than $100,000 for medical supplies for dead people. Alfredo Valdes, Jr., 43, admitted in August that he submitted the bogus claims to Horizon NJ Health, a provider of Medicaid services in the state, through his T-N-T medical supplies company in the Hudson County city of West New York from January 2008 to March 2016. The durable medical equipment – including compression stockings, diapers and other items – were reimbursed in the name of patients w…

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by Jerry DeMarco