The owner of a Florida addiction treatment facility has been found guilty of running an insurance scheme that charged private health insurers more than $58 million for services that were never provided and, in some cases, were not even medically necessary, the Department of Justice announced on April 13.
Carie Lyn Beetle, 44, a resident of Lake City, and a group of co-conspirators ran the illegal insurance scheme at two separate facilities that were operated by Beetle: Real Life Recovery Delray LLC (RLR), a substance abuse treatment center, and A Safe Place LLC, which did business under the name Halfway There Florida LLC (HWT) and operated as a “sober home,” according to court documents.
