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Associated Press - October 28, 2009 11:44 AM ET
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Court records say seven people associated with a Mississippi clinic have been indicted in a federal investigation into Medicaid and Medicare fraud.
Authorities also seized more than $3.6 million from bank accounts and two properties in Texas and one in Ellisville, Miss.
Authorities say the group billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $39 million during the alleged conspiracy and collected $18 million.
The defendants, including four doctors that worked for Statewide Physical Medicine Group in south Mississippi, were summoned to appear Nov. 4 in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg.
At least some of the defendants also have ties to Alabama and New Mexico, but court records say the alleged fraud happened in Mississippi.
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