Dermatologist Convicted In $2.6M Health Care Fraud
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Suburban Dermatologist Convicted of Cheating Medicare and Private Insurers of
Kolbusz, 57, of
Kolbusz remains free on bond pending sentencing, which was scheduled for
According to the evidence at trial, between 2003 and 2010, Kolbusz falsely documented hundreds of patients' records to support medically unnecessary, cosmetic treatments he ordered. He typically billed for removing 15 or more lesions from hundreds of repeat patients, many for whom he treated on at least 10 or more occasions, and received insurance payments of up to
Eight patients, several employees, and an expert witness testified for the government, while Kolbusz testified in his defense. One patient, who was a teenager at the time, testified that she thought only that she was getting her freckles lightened while Kolbusz claimed that he had destroyed approximately 491 pre-cancerous lesions on her skin.
The guilty verdict was announced by
The government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys
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