Posted on 02/06/2004 7:05:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:49:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
While federal authorities investigate a pattern of suspicious Medicare billings involving Southern California doctors and Silicon Valley patients, at least one of the doctors identified in a Mercury News investigation has continued to collect government payments under questionable circumstances.
Officials believe hundreds of elderly Silicon Valley residents were recruited as unwitting participants last year in a scheme that allowed doctors and medical-testing companies to collect more than $1 million in Medicare payments for services that may have been unnecessary or were never performed.
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