9th Circuit Upholds Amount Of Loss Medicare Sustained From Fraud Scheme

Mealey's (March 26, 2018, 12:23 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A federal judge in California did not err when ordering a woman who pleaded guilty to health care fraud to pay $4 million in restitution, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 23, finding that the judge did not err when calculating the amount of loss (United States of America v. L’Tanya Denise Smith, No. 16-50322, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 7411)....