Sept. 25, 2026, 8:31 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
A Jacksonville healthcare professional may face prison and part of a $24 million debt to the federal government after pleading guilty to a role in a kickback scheme<\/a> that sent more than 20,000 bogus payment claims to Medicare and Medicaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rashan Jammeelah Jones<\/a>, 47, was an advanced practice registered nurse<\/a> \u2015 licensed to issue prescriptions \u2015 who prescribed HIV medication supplied through a pharmacy run by a Jacksonville nonprofit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 25, 2026, 8:31 p.m. ET A Jacksonville healthcare professional may face prison and part of a $24…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,47,116,118,117,112502,1145,1146,163072,74371,781,6882,14682,21942,6884,74368,1758,782,123726,7003,26427,59395,307,163071,11030,35,2190,34],"class_list":["post-411132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessmetered","tag-fl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sourceflorida-times-union","tag-sstsnewscrime","tag-sstsncrime","tag-tagadvanced-practice-registered-nurses","tag-tagaids-hiv","tag-tagcrime-justice","tag-tagdrugs-medications","tag-tagfraud","tag-taghealth-insurance","tag-taghealth-policy","tag-taghiv","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-taglegal","tag-tagmedicaid-fraud","tag-tagmedical-facilities-services","tag-tagmedicare","tag-tagmobile-phones","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpharmacies","tag-tagsocial-services","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tagu-s-district-courts","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}