Pain clinic chain to pay $11.4M to settle Medicare and Medicaid fraud claims

Pain clinic chain to pay $11.4M to settle Medicare and Medicaid fraud claims “ The settlement also alleges Lagattuta encouraged unsuitable patients to undergo spinal cord stimulation. It describes the procedure as “an invasive surgery of last resort,” in which implants placed near the spinal cord apply low-voltage electrical pulses to nerve fibers. Lagattuta paid a psychiatrist $3,000 each month to falsely certify that every Lags Medical candidate for the procedure had no... Read more
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