CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina Medical Board has revoked the medical license for a doctor currently serving time in prison for improper surgical procedures and defrauding Medicare.
Anita Louise Jackson, 63, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2023 after being found guilty of device adulteration, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft.
Jackson, who operated clinics in Rockingham, Lumberton and Raleigh, billed Medicare more than $46 million for balloon sinuplasty procedures between 2014 and 2018. Evidence showed she used only 36 FDA-approved Entellus devices for over 1,500 surgeries, reusing them on multiple patients despite rules requiring single use…