Dr. Anita Louise Jackson, a Raleigh-area ear, nose and throat specialist once known for offering in-office sinus procedures, has officially lost her license to practice medicine in North Carolina after federal convictions for reusing single-use devices and defrauding Medicare. The state action comes on the heels of a federal trial, a lengthy prison sentence and appellate rulings that upheld every conviction, leaving patients from her clinics to navigate a thicket of criminal, civil and administrative proceedings tied to the same conduct.
The North Carolina Medical Board entered the revocation on Feb. 13, 2026, formally stripping Jackson of her privilege to practice in the state, according to the North Carolina Medical Board. The board’s online actions log shows the move followed earlier notices and administrative filings that tracked alongside the federal criminal case.
Jackson was convicted on a 20-count superseding indictment and in June 2023 was sentenced to 300 months in prison and ordered to forfeit roughly $4.7 million, federal prosecutors said. Authorities say Jackson billed Medicare about $46 million for balloon sinuplasty procedures between 2014 and 2018 and performed more than 1,500 of the in-office surgeries while using, at most, 36 Entellus XprESS devices. Those figures and the sentence were detailed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina…