Embattled Comp Docs Score with Medicare Payments

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefA doctor accused by Farmers Insurance of billing for services he never provided to auto accident victims and injured workers earned $1.1 million treating Medicare patients in 2012, placing him among the top 1% of all California providers who billed the federal government for health care services that year.Another 41 doctors named as defendants in a federal whistleblower complaint filed five years ago in New Hampshire alleging they billed for compound drugs that were never provided to injured workers were paid a combined $5.25 million by the federal government...