3 local doctors among dozens accused of insurance scam
Authorities accused
Prosecutors allege the Kings made oral and written agreements with doctors across
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Prosecutors allege that from 2011 to 2015, the Kings billed for unnecessary creams, tests and treatments for their own profit.
"The Kings and their co-conspirators played with patients' lives, buying and selling them for profit without regard to patient safety," California Insurance Commissioner
Prosecutors allege the Kings purchased repackaged oral pain medication at reduced cost and sent it to physicians involved in the alleged scam. When doctors dispensed the medication, authorities said, the Kings would bill workers' compensation insurance carriers without disclosing the wholesale cost or that they had bought the medication on behalf of the physicians who ultimately prescribed it. The Kings would split the profits with the prescribing physicians, prosecutors contend.
Authorities also allege that doctors ordered unnecessary urine tests for people under the guise of verifying that patients on workers' compensation insurance were taking their medications as prescribed. Once the urine samples were tested, they were referred to a lab for additional testing, regardless of results. Each test cost
Authorities allege that more than 13,000 patients and at least 27 insurance carriers were victimized. About
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