Here’s what you should know.
1. Ms. Phelan is required to pay $88,000 in restitution and received seven years deferred adjudication.
2. An ex-physician of the clinic contacted Texas Mutual Insurance Company saying he stopped working there in June 2012. Pharmacy records had several prescriptions in his name through October 2012.
3. Texas Mutual investigated the claims and discovered the clinic was seeing several patients while having no licensed medical providers on staff.
4. Ms. Phelan’s staff consisted of foreign medical professionals not licensed to practice in the U.S. In turn, she was using the credentials of former part-time physicians to bill the insurer for reimbursement.
5. Ms. Phelan also “unlawfully operated a pain management clinic,” according to the report.
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