Nicholas A. Alberino and his son, Nicholas P. Alberino, have been arraigned on charges relating to their roles in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) and prescription drug health care fraud and kickback scheme. According to documents filed and statements made in court, they operated five Florida companies, each of which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions for certain expensive medications as well as DME, such as orthotic braces. Call centers contacted Medicare beneficiaries by telephone and pressured them to accept the medications and DME. The Alberinos then transmitted the beneficiaries’ personal information, as well as prewritten doctors’ orders and prescriptions, to RediDoc LLC, a purported telemedicine company. Read a Department of Justice press release.