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   Hollywood hospital executive gets prison time for medicare fraud   
   By Andrea Torres, Local10.com Reporter, atorres@local10.com   
   Published On: Jan 26 2015 04:40:09 PM EST    
   Updated On: Jan 26 2015 08:10:31 PM EST   
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   HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -   
   A hospital executive in Hollywood was ordered to turn himself in February 26,   
   after he was sentenced for his role in a scheme that resulted in more than $67   
   million in fraudulent Medicare claims.   
      
   Christopher Gabel, 62, was the former chief operating officer of the Hollywood   
   Pavilion psychiatric hospital, 1201 N. 37 Ave. He was sentenced to six years   
   in prison. He also must pay more than $39.3 million in restitution. Medicare   
   paid $40 million of $   
   67 million claimed.   
      
   Pavilion employees submitted claims to Medicare for treatment that was not   
   provided from April 2003 to September 2012, authorities said. Gabel confessed   
   to being aware of the scheme, while he supervised the inpatient and outpatient   
   facilities.   
      
   They found Medicare beneficiaries from across the country by paying bribes and   
   kickbacks to patient brokers, authorities said. He plead guilty to accusations   
   that included instructing the patients brokers to falsify invoices.   
      
   Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller, Michele Petrie and Christian Coloma were   
   convicted at trial in June 2013 for their roles in this scheme, according to   
   the U.S. Department of Justice.   
      
   Kallen-Zury, HP's former chief executive officer, was sentenced to 25 years in   
   prison.  Miller, the clinical director of HP's inpatient facility, was   
   sentenced to 15 years in prison; and Petrie, the head of HP's intensive   
   outpatient program, was    
   sentenced to six years in prison.    
      
   Coloma, the director of physical therapy for an entity associated with HP, was   
   sentenced to 12 years in prison.  Kallen-Zury, Miller and Petrie were ordered   
   to pay nearly $40 million in restitution, and Coloma was ordered to pay more   
   than $20 million in    
   restitution.   
      
      
      
      
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