Full 5th Circuit Will Not Rehear Appeals Of Doctors’ Health Care Convictions

Mealey's (October 6, 2021, 1:10 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Without providing detail, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 4 denied petitions for rehearing en banc filed by physicians convicted for their roles in a pass-through billing scheme on various counts of health care fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in connection with their alleged fraudulent billing of insurance companies for medically unnecessary testing....