Prosecutors Say Indicted Doctor Was Previously Accused of Defrauding Medicare

Federal prosecutors are asking for permission to argue that a 2010 settlement with Medicare over false billing and kickback allegations shows a Southern California radiologist “devised and knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud, and acted with the intent to defraud” workers’ compensation carriers by allegedly paying kickbacks for referrals. A 2015 indictment charges Dr. Ronald Grusd, a radiologist and owner of California Imaging Network Medical Group, and Gonzalo Paredes, an administrator at the medical company, of depriving injured workers of the honest services of t...