Vegas nurse practitioner indicted in $906 million fraud scheme targeting hospice elderly — bought $594K Ferrari and $865K Bulgari necklace

According to government officials, Yukee targeted terminally ill elderly Medicare patients in hospice care and billed Medicare and TRICARE for $906 million in unnecessary amniotic wound allografts. She allegedly applied allografts — tissue taken from human donors and used as an alternative to synthetic implants in patients — to wounds that had already healed, and to wounds that were not responding to the treatment.

Yukee then allegedly falsified patient medical data to make it appear like the allografts were necessary. Of the $906 million in fraudulent claims filed by the accused, an estimated $297 million was paid out, officials say. Assets valued at roughly $35.2 million were seized as part of the investigation, including $467,000, a $594,000 Ferrari 296 GTS and a Bulgari necklace purchased for $865,000.

Overall, charges were filed against 11 defendants in relation to amniotic wound allografts, according to officials — across six districts.

Other fraudulent cases of note

If you scroll through the case summaries, they become even more jaw dropping. Other charges that stand out are two against medical professionals and service providers in Texas and Virginia.

Dr. Jason Finkelstein, of Fort Worth, Texas, has been charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, as well as health care fraud, in connection to an $89 million cardiovascular testing scheme. Finkelstein serves as the medical director of a cardiovascular testing company, Company 1, which conducted tests on student athletes across the U.S.

According to the Justice Department, Finkelstein conspired with others to use two other companies he owned — Cardiovascular Testing Services PA and Cardiovascular Healthcare Associates PA — to submit the false claims with made up diagnoses, without conducting examinations or reviewing tests to determine whether student athletes were at risk of cardiac arrest.

On one occasion, in October 2024, Dr. Finkelstein deemed the cardiovascular tests of one collegiate basketball player as “normal” despite tests showing potential cardiovascular abnormalities. Approximately 24 days later, the student died from sudden cardiac arrest.

In the Eastern District of Virginia, Mikia Noble, 37, the co-owner of a mental health company Advancing Communities Everywhere, was charged by information with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Noble is alleged to have approached unhoused people with medicaid coverage, under the guise that the company would offer them mental health services in exchange for using their Medicaid ID numbers. Only those services were never completed or weren’t needed at all.