tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 25

Physician Notes: Doctor Faces Over Five Years in Prison for Taking Bribes from Lab

Exchanging cash for referrals is never a good practice—and has blown up in the face of one New Jersey physician, who was sentenced to 63 months in prison on July 8. The doctor pleaded guilty of accepting $1.8 million in bribes in exchange for sending patients to a diagnostic laboratory nearby. The scheme also involved 27 other people, all of whom admitted their guilt to the government. The feds reviewed several incriminating text messages between the doctor and the lab director, one of which said, “the testing is 90 percent legit.” The doctor had agreed...

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