Loading ...Bernie Madoff was the tip of the ice berg. I told many people, there is a new rule. A new saying, for anyone doing something you are not supposed to be doing….
“What ever you used to get away with before 2008, you will now not be able to get away with”.
Basically after 2008, push is coming to shove, in a lot of situations.
“Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame: Doc’s skin scheme cuts deep”
part:
Sun-drenched Florida retirees who saw Sarasota dermatologist Dr. Michael A. Rosin about suspicious-looking spots on their skin were almost guaranteed to receive the same dreaded diagnosis: skin cancer, whether they had the disease or not.
Rosin performed invasive surgery on hundreds of patients who didn’t need the knife. And he cut deep. The more layers of skin he removed, the more he could fraudulently bill taxpayer-funded Medicare. So Rosin diagnosed cancer even when employees prepared biopsy slides with Styrofoam or chewing gum instead of real human skin.
“More than 90 percent of the patients who came into the doctor’s office had a biopsy and were diagnosed with cancer, had the same size lesions and always had four layers of surgery,” the Sarasota Herald-Tribune wrote.
Rosin ran his dangerous scam on at least 865 patients, averaging a robust 1,000 surgeries per year for four years. He bilked Medicare out of more than $3 million.”
“His “continued possession of a medical license, together with his demonstrated lack of good moral character, warped judgment, and lack of respect for the law raises a serious, immediate concern that he will use his medical license to defraud patients—as he has repeatedly done so in the past—thereby presenting a danger to the public health,” regulators charged.
Rosin received 22 years in federal prison, and must pay $3.7 million to Medicare, Aetna and his patients, plus a $25,000 fine.
“It is an outrage when a doctor knowingly performs invasive surgery that is medically unnecessary,” says U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez. “We must continue to vigorously investigate and prosecute these types of cases.”
more:
http://www.insurancefraud.org/article.htm?RecID=2793#.VCjHFmMtCUk