From January 2022 to July 2023, Ronald Dean, MD, was paid by a telemedicine company to sign orders for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment and then charged Medicare, and other government programs, for telemedicine office visits that did not occur, according to a Dec. 13 news release from the Justice Department.
Dr. Dean was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement, and was fined $100,000 and ordered to pay $780,509 restitution.
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