Judge Denies Dismissal Of 2nd Superseding Indictment Against Clinic Owners

(April 14, 2021, 8:29 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A federal judge in Missouri on April 7 adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation to deny dismissal of a 24-count second superseding indictment accusing a couple who owned a pain clinic of purchasing Orthovisc from a Canadian pharmacy, providing it to patients and submitting bills to government insurers for the treatment, finding that the claims for selling a misbranded device and selling an adulterated device were not duplicitous and that the charges for health care fraud were sufficient....