POD Spine Surgeon Sabit Gets 20 Years in Prison

POD SPINE SURGEON SABIT GETS 20 YEARS IN PRISON (Orthopedics This Week)
Aria Sabit, M.D. is going to jail for almost 20 years if he completes a sentence imposed in January by a federal judge in Michigan.
Sabit pled guilty back in May 2015 to a $2.8 million healthcare fraud scheme for filing false claims that the government said, "caused serious bodily harm to patients by performing unnecessary invasive spinal surgeries.”
Sabit came to light in September 2014 when the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Utah-based Reliance Medical Systems, LLC and Sabit, among others, in California federal court o...