Wild reimbursement sprees in the unregulated California prison system:
One urologist charged the state, read: we taxpayers, $2,036 per hour. An orthopedic surgeon managed to invent the 30-hour day and charge accordingly, billing the state nearly $1.5 million in one year.Another doctor who was paid more than $500,000 in a 10-month period, provided inaccurate test results for Hepatitis C.
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I am going to love to see the defense thrown out for these scumbag physicians by their fellow physician terror gang members. Moral terpitude is certainly not an issue worth loosing one’s license over…
I am a physician and I think this should be reviewed, prosecuted to the full extent of the law, held liable for repayment, and publicly disclosed.
This is terrible, but let’s not think this is a result of a lack of government regulation. Governments are famous for even worse versions and instances of this problem. Privatization is the answer to this sort of thing, not the root of the problem.
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