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‘Dying patients’ not dead yet: Ex-doc gets nine years for $3 million Medicare fraud

by Ken StoneJuly 7, 2017July 7, 2017

A former doctor from Anaheim was sentenced Friday to nine years behind bars for falsely certifying that Medicare patients were terminally ill, and thus qualified for hospice care, when the vast majority of them were not actually dying. Sri “Dr. J” Wijegoonaratna, 62, was also ordered to pay about $3.3 million in restitution to the […]

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Ex-doctor gets four years in $1.3 million hospice scheme

by Stephanie MichaudAugust 15, 2016August 15, 2016
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Doctors guilty in $9M Covina healthcare fraud scheme

by Hillary JacksonMay 5, 2016

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