Southlake and Fort Worth doctors were among more than a dozen North Texas defendants who were charged with various fraud-related crimes on Tuesday.
The charges were part of a massive nationwide healthcare fraud takedown that included charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, according to federal prosecutors. The defendants are charged in schemes involving more than $6.5 billion in false claims, the prosecutors said.
Dr. James Lou Carlisle Jr. of Southlake was charged with two others, Dr. Olubayo Idowu, 75, of Desoto, and Vaughn Anthony Brozek, 56, of Hurst. According to prosecutors, Carlisle and Idowu joined Brozek, a nurse practitioner, in conspiring “to unlawfully enrich themselves from 2020 until at least 2023 by accepting kickbacks and bribes for patient EEG testing that was medically unnecessary.”…