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MIAMI, FL – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and U. S. Attorney Alexander Acosta today announced the indictment and arrest of a Miami pharmacy owner on federal charges of defrauding the Medicaid program. Marilyn Garcia Ferro, a licensed pharmacist and the owner and operator of Accu Care Services. Inc., was arrested today by agents from the Florida Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit based on a federal health care fraud indictment.

The arrest was the result of an investigation conducted by investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, acting upon information received from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. Yesterday, a federal grand jury in Miami indicted her on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and five counts of health care fraud. Garcia Ferro will be held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami until her initial appearance before a federal magistrate.

According to the indictment, Garcia Ferro billed the Medicaid program for expensive HIV/AIDS medications and other medications not determined to be medically necessary. Garcia Ferro is alleged to have been involved in a scheme to defraud the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $400,000 over a five-year period. If convicted, Garcia Ferro faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count of the indictment. The case will be prosecuted by a Medicaid Fraud Attorney cross-sworn under the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.