Younger Drobot Cites Prior Approval in Argument Against Restitution

The spinal surgery kickback scheme at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach was essentially a victimless crime in part because California’s workers’ compensation system has a prior-approval process to determine whether procedures are medically necessary, Michael R. Drobot argues in a new court filing. Drobot was sentenced to 41 months in prison in March for running a drug dispensing program that was used to pay kickbacks to providers who referred patients to his father’s hospital. He said in the poisition brief that he should not be ordered to pay damages to any of the p...