This post is easy to write. All I have to do is take a look at the news. Healthcare provider after healthcare provider makes an appearance on an almost daily basis for all the wrong reasons. The most frequent crimes are Medicare fraud and sexual assault. Money and sex. Who would have thought it?
Some recent headlines:
- Houston podiatrist has been accused of placing a secret camera in the restroom of his office to record patients
- New York family practice doctor was sentenced to 7 years in prison for running an opioid mill out of his office.
- A Florida nurse was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a patient who was confined to a hospital bed.
- A New Mexico nurse was accused of sexually assaulting a minor patient.
- A New York oncologist was arrested for sexually assaulting an adult female patient during an office visit.
- A Colorado nurse working in a jail was arrested and accused of providing synthetic drugs to an inmate.
- A Kansas anesthesiologist was sentenced to prison for accepting kickbacks for prescribing unnecessary durable medical equipment. He netted hundreds of thousands of dollars for his illegal activities.
- An Indiana doctor was sentenced to 8 years in prison and ordered to pay $19 million in restitution for billing Medicare for sinus procedures she never performed.
- A Texas orthopedic surgeon was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $13 million in restitution for submitting fraudulent claims related to prescription creams.
- An Ohio pediatric urologist has been charged with possessing child sexual abuse material.
- An Arizona surgical hospital is paying $5.6 million to resolve allegations that it was paying for surgical referrals.
- An Ohio doctor was sentenced to prison after admitting to raping a female patient.
- A Nebraska neurosurgeon is going to trial on allegations of sexual activities with a number of underage boys.
- A Georgia chiropractor pleaded guilty to charging the federal government for COVID test kits that were never ordered.
- Five Florida ophthalmology practices will pay almost $6 million to resolve claims that they billed the federal government for unnecessary medical procedures. The billings were part of an illegal kickback scheme with a medical testing company.
- A Chicago doctor is charged with murdering his ex-wife and her husband.
- Three Louisiana long-term care hospitals have been charged with keeping patients longer than medically necessary to boost their Medicare billings.
- The license of a Texas surgeon was temporarily suspended when he was accused of performing surgery while intoxicated.
- A Massachusetts rheumatologist has been charged with raping multiple patients.
- A Florida cosmetic physician has been charged with sexually assaulting a sedated patient in his office.
- An Alabama family practice physician has been sentenced to prison and ordered to repay millions in restitution for his participation in a scheme to defraud government insurance programs.
- Sadly, there are many more where these came from.
