Medical Malpractice News: Medicare Fraud Charges Filed Against California Hospital CEO

Medical Malpractice News: In August 2008, law enforcement officials in California arrested a hospital CEO in connection with an alleged scheme where homeless and indigents from the Skid Row slums of Los Angeles were recruited to be treated at three hospitals in order to bill federal Medicare and state Medicaid programs for unnecessary health services.

Federal agents raided three medical facilities in Los Angeles and Orange County that had submitted fraudulent claims worth millions of dollars to Medicare and California’s state Medicaid program, Medi-Cal.

The homeless and indigents were sent to a Los Angeles health assessment center, where they would be given fraudulent paperwork that approved them for inpatient hospital stays for non-existent complaints. In many cases, these indigents were transported to the hospitals via ambulance.

During the course of the scheme, a mentally ill woman also suffering from drug addiction was treated at the hospitals on multiple occasions. During one hospitalization, she was treated for a non-existent cardiopulmonary condition with a nitroglycerin patch. The patch is used to treat angina (chest pain), and since the woman did not suffer from a cardiac condition, the drug caused a serious drop in the woman’s blood pressure. The woman also alleged that during the course of her hospitalizations, while she was treated for multiple non-existent complaints, she was never provided care for mental health or addiction.

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