DWC Suspends 13 Providers

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation suspended 13 providers, including six physicians no longer licensed to practice medicine, and a businessperson who was convicted of fraud. The DWC on Nov. 14 suspended Ayodeji Fatunmbi, a businessperson in Torrance, who was sentenced to 46 months in prison in August for his role in an $8.3 million fraud scheme targeting Medicare. As part of his guilty plea, Fatunmbi admitted to paying kickbacks to recruiters and physicians for fraudulent prescriptions for durable medical equipment such as power wheelchairs that the Medicare beneficia...