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Five More Charged in Spinal Fusion Kickback Scheme

By Greg Jones (Senior Editor)

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | 19

Federal prosecutors announced five more people have been charged for their alleged role in a scheme that they say defrauded carriers out of $500 million through illegal spinal hardware markups and kickback payments -- charges which Michael D. Drobot pleaded guilty to last year. Criminal charges also allege a similar scheme of paying kickbacks for spinal fusions performed at Tri-City Regional Medical Center in Hawaiin Gardens, California, and paying kickbacks of $150 to $200 to doctors for toxicology tests. Three defendants already pleaded guilty to charges filed under seal between 2012 and N...

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