The Brief
- Dr. Violetta Mailyan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for running a $45 million Medicare Botox scheme.
- Federal data uncovered Mailyan collected over $24 million – six times more than top neurologists – to fund Teslas, real estate, and fancy vacations.
- Officials have not yet determined how many patients had records falsified or how long it will take to recover the full $32.9 million restitution.
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge sentenced a Glendale doctor to 15 years in prison for orchestrating a $45 million health care fraud scheme that systematically billed Medicare for fake and unneeded Botox treatments to bankroll a lavish lifestyle.
The backstory:…