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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami-Dade County man has been arrested for defrauding the Florida Medicaid Program out of more than $76,000. Juan Blandy, the owner of Supreme Home Health Care Agency, Inc., was arrested today by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from Miami-Dade Police Department.

Investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit discovered that Blandy, 59, allegedly paid thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks to several different case managers employed by Medicaid-enrolled agencies in exchange for their referrals of Medicaid recipients to Blandy’s company. After receiving the referrals, Blandy promised to provide personal services and assistance to the Medicaid patients, but no such services were rendered. As a result of fraudulent billing, Supreme Home Health Care Agency was paid over $76,000 in reimbursements from the Florida Medicaid program. The Medicaid case managers assisting Blandy have also been arrested and are currently on probation.

Blandy is charged with one count of Medicaid fraud, a third-degree felony. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The case is being prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit through the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.