Surgeon Gets Supervised Release in $87,000 Fraud Scheme

Thursday, June 7, 2018 | 0

An upstate New York orthopedic surgeon was sentenced this week to one year of supervised release and he must pay almost $87,000 in restitution for defrauding the workers' compensation system.

Dr. Gregory Shankman, 70, of Clinton, New York, was sentenced Tuesday in Oneida County Court, according to a news release. He also surrendered his medical license. 

An investigation by the state workers' compensation fraud inspector general determined that Shankman was running a scheme in which he collected fees for seeing patients at his offices while he was actually traveling or seeing patients elsewhere. 

Shankman pleaded guilty in April.