Jailed on 12-Year Sentence and Charged $50 Million: Psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil
A Miami psychiatrist, Fernando Mendez-Villamil, flooded Miami’s streets with antipsychotic drugs as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. He was sentenced in 2016 to 12 years in prison and a full $50 million in restitution for his medical fraud and overmedicating his patients.
The news was reported at the time by the Miami Herald who quote Medez-Villamil himself saying, “I know what I did was wrong, was dishonest.”
CCHR tracks all such criminal prosecutions of psychiatrists who abuse the mental health system and destroys lives.
If you or someone you know is a victim of psychiatric abuse, you can protect yourself by reporting it to CCHR through this secure Abuse Report Form.
CCHR is a nonprofit mental health watchdog group dedicated to eliminating abuses committed under the guise of mental health. CCHR works to ensure patient and consumer protections are enacted and upheld as there is rampant abuse in the field of mental health. In this role, CCHR has helped to enact more than 180 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive mental health practices since it was formed 50 years ago.
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