Federal Prosecutors Announce Charges Against 12 More in Fraud Schemes

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Thursday announced the indictment of two doctors and an attorney in an alleged kickback scheme to defraud workers’ compensation carriers and other insurers — in addition to 30 other doctors, pharmacists and other suspected conspirators who allegedly bilked insurers out $660 million. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California unsealed indictments that were made in four separate scams that allegedly defrauded Medicare, the TriCare health insurance program for the military, private health insurers, the f...