A Raleigh doctor was found guilty of re-using 'unsanitary' equipment meant for one-time use on unsuspecting patients during surgeries as part of a massive Medicare fraud case
A doctor who helped lead the COVID-19 response for the Durham County Health Department has been indicted by a federal grand jury after an investigation of her private practice.A North Carolina doctor was found guilty of re-using "unsanitary" equipment meant for one-time use on unsuspecting patients during surgeries, the Justice Department said Friday.
The numbers simply didn't add up -- despite performing the procedure more than a thousand times, Jackson received at most only 36 new Entellus devices between 2012 and 2017, officials said. Federal prosecutors also said between 2014 and 2018, Jackson used her practices to bill Medicare more than $46 million for the balloon sinuplasty procedures and netted more than $4.79 Million from Medicare for these surgeries alone.
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