Petitioner: VICENTE E. ROGER, M.D.
Respondent: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
Judges: STUART M. LERNER
Agency: Agency for Health Care Administration
Locations: Miami, Florida
Filed: Sep. 23, 2004
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Tuesday, October 19, 2004.
Latest Update: Dec. 26, 2024
STATE OF FLORIDA
DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
VICENTE E. ROGER, M.D.,
Petitioner,
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FINAL ORDER
This cause came before me for issuance of a Final Order. In a Final Agency
Audit Report dated July 30, 2004 (audit number C.. 01-1761-000) Petitioner, Vicente E.
Roger, M.D. was informed the Agency was seeking to recover Medicaid overpayments
of $31,031.73. The letter was sent certified mail, return receipt requested to Vicente E.
Roger, M.D. (hereinafter “PROVIDER’).
The letter contained full disclosure and notice regarding the PROVIDER'S
administrative hearing and due process rights. The PROVIDER filed a petition for
hearing. The PROVIDER, in a letter dated October 14, 2004, directed to Administrative
Law Judge Stuart M. Lerner, withdrew its petition and expressed its intention to pay the
alleged overpayment. Based upon the referenced letter and the expressed desire
therein of the Provider to withdraw its hearing request and pay the amount of the
overpayment to the Agency, the Division of Administrative Hearings entered an Order
Closing File dated October 19, 2004. Jurisdiction was thereby effectively relinquished
to the Agency.
FINDINGS OF FACTS
The PROVIDER received the Final Agency Audit Report and that report
disclosed to the providers their administrative and due process rights. The PROVIDER
filed a petition and later through a letter to the Administrative Law Judge assigned to
the case, withdrew the petition and expressed its desire to pay the overpayment.
Therefore, petitioner has chosen not to dispute the facts set forth in the Final Agency
Audit Report dated July 30, 2004. Those facts are hereby deemed admitted.
Additionally the total overpayment amount of $31,031.73 is deemed admitted, and
these admissions form the factual basis for the existence of an overpayment owed by
the PROVIDER, in the amount of $31,031.73. The facts set forth in the Final Agency
Report are hereby adopted. That amount is now due and owing, with interest, since the
date of July 30, 2004.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
The Agency incorporates and adopts the statements and conclusions of law as
set forth in the Final Agency Report dated July 30, 2004. The admitted facts and law
support the conclusion that the overpayment is due and owing, under the law generally
set forth in the final audit letter. Under Florida Statute 409, interest accrues on this
overpayment from July 30, 2004.
Based on the foregoing, it is
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that Petitioner refund, forthwith, the sum of
$31,031.73, together with statutory interest as set forth in Section 409.913, Florida
Statutes, from the date of July 30, 2004.
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DONE AND ORDERED this Ge day of p&cé7y%Z__, 2004, in Tallahassee,
FE we Levine, Sead
Agency for Health Care Administration
Florida.
A PARTY WHO IS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THIS FINAL ORDER IS ENTITLED
TO A JUDICIAL REVIEW WHICH SHALL BE INSTITUTED BY FILING ONE COPY OF
A NOTICE OF APPEAL WITH THE AGENCY CLERK OF AHCA, AND A SECOND
COPY ALONG WITH FILING FEE AS PRESCRIBED BY LAW, WITH THE DISTRICT
COURT OF APPEAL IN THE APPELLATE DISTRICT WHERE THE AGENCY
MAINTAINS ITS HEADQUARTERS OR WHERE A PARTY RESIDES. REVIEW
PROCEEDINGS SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FLORIDA
APPELLATE RULES. THE NOTICE OF APPEAL MUST BE FILED WITHIN 30 DAYS
OF RENDITION OF THE ORDER TO BE REVIEWED.
Copies Furnished to:
Vicente E. Roger, M.D.
Attn.: Laura Miranda, Office Manager
1069 Kane Concourse
Bay Harbor, Florida 33154-2107
Donna Riselli, Assistant General Counsel
Agency for Health Care Administration
2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3
Tallahassee, Florida 32308-5403
(Interoffice)
Timothy Byrnes, Chief
Medicaid Program Integrity
Agency for Health Care Administration
2727 Mahan Drive, MS #5
Tallahassee, Florida 32308
(Interoffice)
Willie Bivins
Finance & Accounting
Medicaid Accounts Receivables
Agency for Health Care Administration
(Interoffice)
Stuart M. Lerner
Administrative Law Judge
DOAH
(Interoffice)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
CERTIFICATE OF SERVE
| HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been
aon to the above named addresses by U.S. Mail on this the / Oo” day of
mY 4 VLA, 2004.
__ FOL sAgency lerk
‘ Agency for Health Care Administration
2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3
Tallahassee, Florida 32308-5403
(850) 922-5873
Docket for Case No: 04-003459MPI
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Dec. 15, 2004 |
Final Order filed.
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Oct. 19, 2004 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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Oct. 18, 2004 |
Amended Notice of Video Teleconference (hearing scheduled for December 6 and 7, 2004; 9:00 a.m.; Miami and Tallahassee, FL; amended as to Type of Hearing and Locations of Hearing).
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Oct. 18, 2004 |
Letter to Judge Lerner from Petitioner regarding foregoing the administrative hearing filed.
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Oct. 14, 2004 |
Respondent`s First Request for Production of Documents filed.
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Oct. 14, 2004 |
Respondent`s First Interrogatories to Petitioner filed.
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Oct. 14, 2004 |
Respondent`s Request for Admissions (filed via facsimile).
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Oct. 14, 2004 |
Notice of Service of Interrogatories, Request for Admissions, & Request for Production of Documents filed by Respondent.
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Oct. 14, 2004 |
Motion for Appearance by Closed Circuit Court Video filed by Respondent.
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Oct. 13, 2004 |
Amended Response to Initial Order (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Oct. 12, 2004 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Oct. 12, 2004 |
Notice of Hearing (hearing set for December 6 and 7, 2004; 9:00 a.m.; Tallahassee, FL).
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Oct. 12, 2004 |
Unilateral Response to Initial Order (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Oct. 07, 2004 |
Notice of Ex-parte Communication.
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Oct. 07, 2004 |
Letter to Judge Lerner from L. Miranda in Response to Initial Order filed.
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Oct. 04, 2004 |
Order Granting Extension of Time. (parties` joint response to the Initial Order shall be filed no later than October 11, 2004)
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Oct. 04, 2004 |
Motion for Enlargement of Time to file Joint Response to Initial Order (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Sep. 24, 2004 |
Initial Order.
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Sep. 23, 2004 |
Request for Administrative Hearing filed.
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Sep. 23, 2004 |
Final Agency Audit Report filed.
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Sep. 23, 2004 |
Notice (of Agency referral) filed.
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