ANOTHER FOOT DOC PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD (Orthopedics This Week)
What is it about foot doctors and healthcare fraud?
For the third time in the last couple of years, a podiatrist has pled guilty to defrauding Medicare and other payers.
First it was Virginia podiatrist Ilene Terrell, D.P.M., who was sentenced to five months in prison in 2014 for lying to a grand jury about falsifying patient medical records and prescribing an Orthofix, Inc. bone growth stimulator where the claim would not have met Medicare's guidelines
Then it was California podiatrist, Neil Van Dyck, D.P.M. who was sentenced thi...
