"FORT LAUDERDALE - The medical director of a shuttered clinic surrendered his medical license during a state Medicaid fraud investigation.
Dr. Edgar Escobar of Pompano Beach ended his medical career Friday as one of Florida's top prescribers of narcotics and other painkillers to low-income patients.
Escobar wrote that he has been too ill to treat patients or write prescriptions since at least January 2003, even though the clinic issued prescriptions under his name and Medicaid billing number as recently as this month. Medicaid paid more than $3.6-million for those prescriptions.
Medicaid fraud investigators claim Escobar's unlicensed former business associate, Fausto Capella, wrote some of the prescriptions and illegally treated patients at the Fort Lauderdale clinic called South Florida Immunologic Center Inc.
Agents arrested Cappella, 40, of Fort Lauderdale, on charges of practicing medicine without a license, Medicaid fraud, grand theft and trafficking in prescription narcotics, including OxyContin."
Dr. Edgar Escobar of Pompano Beach ended his medical career Friday as one of Florida's top prescribers of narcotics and other painkillers to low-income patients.
Escobar wrote that he has been too ill to treat patients or write prescriptions since at least January 2003, even though the clinic issued prescriptions under his name and Medicaid billing number as recently as this month. Medicaid paid more than $3.6-million for those prescriptions.
Medicaid fraud investigators claim Escobar's unlicensed former business associate, Fausto Capella, wrote some of the prescriptions and illegally treated patients at the Fort Lauderdale clinic called South Florida Immunologic Center Inc.
Agents arrested Cappella, 40, of Fort Lauderdale, on charges of practicing medicine without a license, Medicaid fraud, grand theft and trafficking in prescription narcotics, including OxyContin."
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