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TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Broward County man is in custody after he allegedly defrauded the Florida Medicaid Program out of more than $30,000. Eddy Jean-Louis, a respiratory therapist in Pembroke Pines, was arrested today by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Acting on information received from a Medicaid recipient’s primary care physician, Medicaid Fraud investigators discovered that Jean-Louis, 40, was allegedly billing the Medicaid program from 2006 to 2008 for services he did not have medical authorization to provide. Respiratory therapy must be prescribed by the recipient's primary care provider, an advanced registered nurse practitioner, or a designated physician’s assistant.

Jean-Louis will be charged one count of grand theft, a third-degree felony. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted by Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.