Mealey's (October 27, 2016, 12:16 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 24 affirmed a man’s 120-month sentence for health care fraud and conspiracy to commit health care fraud, holding that a federal judge in California properly allowed him to present evidence on intended loss and finding that the instructions in United States v. Popov (2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 2577) did not violate the ex post facto clause (United States of America v. Ramanathan Prakash, No. 14-10517, 9th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 19143)....