The Miami Herald

March 22, 2007 Thursday

Psychiatrist jailed on fraud charges

BYLINE: JOHN DORSCHNER, jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com

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Moraima Trujillo, a Miami-Dade psychiatrist, has been arrested and jailed on charges that she defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, the Veteran’s Administration and several private employers, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced this afternoon.
Investigators found documents that between January and December 2004, Trujillo billed the Medicaid and Medicare programs for treatment of patients at the same times she was supposedly working for the Veteran’s Administration and several other employers.
In 2004, Trujillo submitted time reports on 207 days to several employers and billings to the federally funded programs in which she appeared to be working between 20 and 40 hours a day, prosecutors said in a press release.
Trujillo is currently being held at the Miami-Dade County jail, charged with one count each of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud, both first-degree felonies. If convicted of both charges, she faces up to 60 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.