L.A. doctors busted for bilking Medicare out of million$
Two physicians were arrested Friday for allegedly subjecting mentally ill homeless people to unnecessary tests and other procedures at a North Hollywood clinic in order to submit fraudulent bills to government insurance programs.
Dr. Eleanor Santiago Arthur and Dr. Rodney Stephen Barron participated in a scheme in which “cappers” recruited Medicare and Medi-Cal enrollees from as far away as Long Beach and drove them to the Victory Boulevard clinic in exchange for a fee…
The “patients” were subjected to abdominal ultrasounds and other procedures that were unwarranted, the complaint says. In some instances, their blood was drained into unsanitary, open containers, it says. One official said the clinics submitted the blood for tests under multiple patients’ names so they could bill multiple times.
After the visits, the cappers drove the patients back to where they picked them up and paid them $100 each, according to the complaint.
The clinic billed the government for up to $1,000 worth of medical care per patient, and each physician saw 30 to 50 patients a day, city attorney’s officials said in a news release. The investigation carried out by the Los Angeles County Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force found that the scheme cheated the government out of millions of dollars over six months.
Santiago Arthur and Barron each face up to seven years in prison if convicted of charges that they conspired to cheat Medicare and Medi-Cal, the government medical insurance programs for seniors, the poor and disabled.
These are the cruds protected by lobbyists, insurance companies and teabaggers.
Throw away the key!
Holler at your Congress-critter to support Bernie Sanders' bill to 
I know it’s not Eid’s intent to denigrate the doctors servicing Medicare patients without crying in their beer – or kissing up to the nut ball Right to get them more buck$ – because in our neck of the prairie there’s pretty decent Medicare service.
The scumbags as usual are the insurance companies like AARP’s investment partners, United Healthcare – who just walked away from all the seniors in the state because they felt their profit margins weren’t high enough.
moss
October 31, 2010 at 8:41 am
FYI! Rodney Stephen Barron was the “Penis Enlargement doctor” who destroyed many men’s lives by promising them a larger penis. He would severly disfigure these men, and destroy them mentally as well. He was sued, had his lisence revoked for a month, and went back to work in New York. He would advertise in the sports section…He is real bad doctor! He ruined my brothers life, and at 38, my only brother commited suicide! This man should be locked up forever and the California Medical Board or (Kangaroo Court) should re-examine why they let him go so many times. Maybe this time he will get what he deserves – To be in JAIL, with a real huge cock up his ass!
John Anderson
February 5, 2011 at 2:17 am
As I had my life illegally destroyed by someone left unprosecuted, I am horrified to hear what happened to your brother. It infuriates me. I often ask a friend, ‘how many more lives is the individual going to be allowed to destroy?’ The collateral damage also ends up destroying families and or family structures. The liar who illegally abused the courts, committed perjury and went unprosecuted when destroying my life also had a thug involved who attacked my family.
If you think there is a way readers of this thread can help remedy the situation of which you refer, please let us know what we (or I) can do.
E Trams
February 5, 2011 at 6:07 am
What was the ruling by the court on his latter arrest? Does anyone know thanks.
J
March 26, 2011 at 7:25 am
Case hasn’t reached a conclusion, yet.
eideard
March 26, 2011 at 7:44 am