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From: Jean Long
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:11 AM
Subject: Newspaper ad about my surgeon's office!
Article in my newspaper Friday, August 31, 2001:
Doctor settles suit for $1.8 million dollars!
An orthopedic surgeon agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to settle allegations of false Medicare claims, but still denied the allegation, lawyers said Thursday.
The civil complaint from the U.S. attorney's office alleges that Dr. Robert Booth Jr. and Reconstructive Orthopedics Associates submitted false claims to Medicare for SURGERY that was PERFORMED BY RESIDENTS and fellows between 1995 and 1997 while Booth WAS NOT PRESENT.
The complaint alleges that Booth submitted claims falsely ASSERTING that HE had performed the surgery.
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-- ___________________________________________________________This is the doctor's office where I had my surgeries last year just not that particular doctor. But then "who knows who really did the terrible job on my surgeries which only added to my pains instead of making me better??!?
Sure makes you wonder what is going on in the operating room!!
Jean