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FBI Agents Raid WellCare By CAROL GENTRY The Tampa Tribune Published: Oct 25, 2007
TAMPA - About 200 agents from the FBI and other federal and state agencies descended on the headquarters of WellCare Health Plans on Wednesday morning in a raid, seizing laptop computers, files and boxes of documents.
The company declined to comment on the raid, other than to confirm that state and federal agents searched its four-building campus on Henderson Road and to assure clients that services would not be affected.
None of the agencies involved in the raid would comment on the reason for the search of the company, one of the nation's largest health insurers for government programs.
Agents from the FBI, the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services, and the Florida attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit participated in Wednesday's search. They referred calls to the U.S. attorney's office in Tampa, but that office said it could not discuss the purpose of the search. Steve Cole, spokesman for the office, said there were no arrests.
The raid occurred on the same day as a scheduled quarterly meeting of WellCare's board of directors. Chip Burpee, an aide to former Florida governor and WellCare board member Bob Graham, said the meeting was scheduled at the insurer's headquarters Wednesday, but Graham was out of the country and unable to attend.
Typically, top executives of a company would be present at a quarterly board meeting.
WellCare, which has blossomed into one of the Tampa Bay area's largest and most successful companies, provides health and drug coverage for a combined 2.3 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide.
The company, which booked net income of $139 million on $3.8 billion in revenue last year, issued a statement late Wednesday that it is cooperating with authorities and that none of its health plan members would be affected.
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