Here are four insights:
1. Former physician Laran Johnathon Lerner submitted false claims to Medicare totaling nearly $5.7 million.
2. On March 28, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs took his license under a code that enables the agency to suspend a health professional’s license if he or she is convicted of a felony.
3. A court sentenced the physician to 45 months in prison in September 2015.
4. The osteopathic physician will pay restitution totaling nearly $2.8 million.
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