Two physicians in California agreed to settlements to resolve allegations relating to a fraud scheme that caused the false claims to Medicare.
Zachary Lipman, MD, of Chico, Calif., paid $290,000 and Michael Woo-Ming, MD, of Murrieta, Calif., agreed to pay $85,000, according to a March 20 news release from the Justice Department.
Both settlements are connected to a fraud scheme run by Kevin Brown, a chiropractor in California. Mr. Brown used his companies to receive Medicare reimbursements for surgically implanted neurostimulators, even though the companies neither performed surgeries or implanted neurostimulators…