Dr. Donald Woo Lee, 54, of Temecula, submitted roughly $12 million in claims to Medicare and received $4.5 million.
A federal grand jury found a Southern California doctor guilty of seven counts of healthcare fraud in connection with a $12-million scheme to perform unnecessary medical procedures on Medicare beneficiaries, officials announced Thursday.
According to the Department of Justice, evidence presented at the six-day trial revealed that, from 2012 to 2015, Lee recruited Medicare beneficiaries to his clinics and falsely diagnosed them with venous insufficiency, a condition that prevents veins in the legs from allowing blood to flow to the heart.
into federal healthcare schemes. More than 300 people were charged, including a pharmacist and several doctors and psychiatrists in Southern California. Lee was one of 22 people charged in Southern California.
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