Former Co-Owner of L.A. Home Health Agency Gets 10 Years for Medicare Scam
The former co-owner of a Los Angeles home health agency was sentenced Monday to 10…
Medicare Fraud By LA Doc: Feds Billed But No Treatment
A Los Angeles doctor who billed Medicare for procedures that patients either did not need…
Lancaster Doctor Convicted in Medicare Kickback Scheme
A Los Angeles federal jury Thursday convicted a Lancaster doctor of conspiracy for his role…
Ex-Employee of SFV Ambulance Company Sentenced for Medicare Fraud
A former employee of a San Fernando ambulance company was sentenced Monday to three years…
Hospice fraud reckoning: Money for death care, patients weren’t dying
A 46-year-old Placentia woman was sentenced Monday to a year of home detention for helping…
Sentencing delayed in Medicare kickback scheme: Fontana company billed health program almost $9 million
Monday’s scheduled sentencing hearing for a 49-year- old Fontana woman who admitted paying illegal kickbacks…
Sentence due for Fontana woman in health care fraud scheme
A 49-year-old Fontana woman could be sentenced to federal prison Monday for paying illegal kickbacks…
Palmdale doc insists on innocence in illegal kickback scheme fed case
A Palmdale physician pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of receiving illegal kickbacks in…
Drug, booze rehab center owner accused of medical insurance fraud
The owner of a drug and alcohol rehab center in Murrieta accused of filing fraudulent…
Unneeded skin cancer surgeries, Medicare payouts: Encino doc settles, whistleblower gets big bucks
An Encino dermatologist paid almost $2.7 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that…
UCLA: Public funds make up two-thirds of health care spending
Contrary to the notion that the country’s health care is primarily a privately funded system,…
Ex-doctor gets four years in $1.3 million hospice scheme
A former doctor from Pasadena was sentenced Monday to four years behind bars for falsely…
Docs targeted military in health fraud: Southland physicians charged
Several doctors were among defendants charged in Los Angeles and Orange County with participation in…
Medicare millionaire fraud: 8 years in prison as ‘dying’ patients were just fine
A 70-year-old Placentia woman was sentenced Monday to eight years in federal prison for running a…
Prison for Medicare power-wheelchair $1.8M scam
A San Fernando Valley resident who submitted more than $1.8 million in fraudulent claims to…
