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TAMPA - Investigators with the Florida attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit accused a Tampa podiatrist Friday of filing more than 6,800 false claims that bilked the program out of more than $120,000.
Donald Edward Beckett, 56, was charged with fraudulent use of personal information, a felony, and felony organized fraud, jail records show. The claims were filed between May 1, 2001, and Sept. 15, 2004.
Beckett was released Friday from Orient Road Jail on $40,000 bail.
He was arrested at his home at 10144 Deercliff Drive in Tampa about 6:45 a.m. Friday, records say. His office is at 100 W. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 706.
Beckett is accused of hiring doctors to review treatment notes taken by nurses for wounds above the hip, then billing Medicaid with those doctors' provider numbers, Attorney General Charlie Crist's office said.
If convicted, Beckett could face up to 10 years in state prison.
Podiatrist Accused Of 6,800 False Claims
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