Court Accepts Anesthesiologist's Guilty Plea in Alleged $150M Fraud Scheme

The federal court for the Central District of California accepted a guilty plea from an anesthesiologist accused of receiving nearly $800,000 in kickbacks to prescribe compound drugs and other pharmaceuticals as part of a scheme that allegedly bilked Medicare, Medicaid, private carriers and union health benefit plans out of more than $150 million. Amir Friedman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud for his role in a part of the alleged scheme that primarily targeted workers’ compensation carriers, according to the agreement the U.S. District Cour...