Industry Notes:
Medically Unnecessary Surgeries Bring Major Penalties
Published on Tue May 02, 2023
Not only is performing medically inappropriate surgery on your patients morally wrong, it’s Medicare fraud when you bill the procedures to the government. Scoop: Spokane, Washington-based former neurosurgeon Jason A. Dreyer agreed to pay the government more than $1.17 million to resolve Medicare, Medicaid, and other fraud charges for allegedly performing medically unnecessary neurosurgery procedures on patients from 2013 to [...]