Complaint Accuses Chiropractor of Running Bill Mill

A civil fraud complaint filed in Sacramento charges 29 physicians, chiropractors and others of participating in a "medical billing mill" that took California workers' compensation carriers for hundreds of millions of dollars. "The clinics invariably order each patient to undergo a boilerplate battery of treatments, tests and medications," according to the whistleblower complaint. "The physicians, chiropractors, psychologists and other personnel at the clinics prescribe these treatments without regard for necessity, effectiveness or patient safety. The clinics ...