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Family Practitioner Gets 5 Years in Prison for False Claims

Published on Tue Sep 04, 2018

A Saratoga, California physician pretended that she didn’t understand how the federal healthcare system worked. It did not turn out well. Family practitioner Vilasini Ganesh coordinated with her husband, Gregory Belcher, to defraud Medicare by submitting “a series of false medical claims related to the family medical practice she owned, Campbell Medical Group in Saratoga,” noted a Department of Justice [...]
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