Doctor Convicted For Billing Insurers For Unnecessary Surgeries, False Statements

Mealey's (November 11, 2020, 2:03 PM EST) -- NORFOLK, Va. — Following an 18-day trial, a federal jury in Virginia on Nov. 10 convicted an obstetrician-gynecologist of numerous counts of health care fraud and making false statements related to a health care matter for submitting bills to government and private insurers for medically unnecessary irreversible hysterectomies and telling patients they needed the surgery to prevent cancer....