Nevada Nurse Practitioner Indicted in Sprawling $906 Million Medicare Wound Care Fraud Scheme

LAS VEGAS, NV — The Department of Justice has unsealed a massive federal indictment against a Las Vegas nurse practitioner accused of orchestrating a staggering $906 million healthcare fraud scheme that targeted terminally ill hospice patients across multiple states.

Federal authorities executing coordinated search warrants seized millions of dollars in luxury assets, exposing an illicit billing operation that prosecutors describe as one of the largest clinical skin graft scams in U.S. history.

Targeting Vulnerable Hospice Patients

The indictment, handed down in federal court following a multi-agency investigation by the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services, names Marizel Yukee, 49, of Las Vegas. Yukee owned and controlled four mobile wound care clinics: Wound Medic LLC, My BestHealth First LLC, AllCare Mobile Wound Treatment LLC, and Oracle Wound Treatment LLC, operating across Nevada, California, Texas, and Hawaii.

Federal prosecutors allege that from October 2023 through April 2026, Yukee and her co-conspirators systematically submitted over $906 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and TRICARE for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts—tissue grafts taken from human donors.

The indictment reveals a predatory blueprint where sales representatives and providers targeted elderly, vulnerable patients, many of whom were terminally ill or in hospice care. Grafts were applied to wounds that were already fully healed, infected, or entirely unresponsive to treatment, with billing logs showing an average of over $1 million in claims submitted per single Medicare beneficiary. In several documented instances, hospice patients died within days of receiving the unneeded allograft applications.

Lavish Exploits & Kickback Networks

To conceal the operation, Yukee allegedly paid travel benefits and structured financial kickbacks to facility administrators and sales reps to secure patient rosters. Court records indicate that she routinely ignored federal invoicing rules, billing Medicare up to $3,900 per graft on products that cost her only $1,600.

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|       FEDERAL ASSET SEIZURES & FRAUD PROFILE          |
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|  - Defendant: Marizel Yukee (Age 49, Las Vegas, NV)    |
|  - Total Fraudulent Billings: ~$906,000,000            |
|  - Actual Government Payouts: ~$297,000,000            |
|  - Seized Assets: $594K Ferrari 296 GTS, $865K Bulgari |
|    Necklace, Hawaii Estate, $3M Certificate of Deposit  |
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Federal asset forfeiture units moved quickly to strip Yukee of her lavish, fraud-funded lifestyle. Government tracking sheets confirmed the seizure of a $594,000 Ferrari 296 GTS, a $158,000 Cadillac Escalade, an $865,000 Bulgari diamond necklace, a million-dollar residential property in Hawaii, and a $3 million certificate of deposit.

Yukee faces multiple felony counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and healthcare fraud, money laundering, and soliciting illegal healthcare kickbacks. She is currently being held in federal custody pending trial, where prosecutors are seeking a massive money judgment to claw back more than $297 million actually paid out by the government programs.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice National Health Care Fraud Takedown Declarations, FBI Las Vegas Field Office Administrative Indictments.