Unlicensed Electrologist Gets Seven Years for Fraud

A New Jersey electrologist has been sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution for attempting to bilk several New Jersey insurance companies out of more than $900,000 in reimbursement payments by billing common electrolysis as a medically necessary cosmetic procedure -- a procedure the electrologist was not licensed to perform, state Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced on Wednesday. "This investigation and prosecution uncovered an attempted fraud that nearly cost two New Jersey insurance companies $1 million. The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, in concert with the...