In July, former Solantic employee Randy Prokes, MD, sent a complaint to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who also happens to be running for governor in the GOP primary, alleging Solantic billed Medicare for services performed by nurse practitioners between 2006 and 2009 as if they had been performed by physicians, according to the report.
The Attorney General claimed his campaign forwarded the allegations to the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which has forwarded the complaint to HHS because it deals with issues of Medicare, not state Medicaid, fraud.
Solantic’s CEO Karen Bowling denied the charges, adding that Dr. Prokes was fired last year for writing prescriptions for pain killers outside the clinic, which Solantic prohibits, according to the report.
Read the Naples News report on fraud allegations against Solantic.
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