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A federal jury convicted a Florida doctor yesterday in the Southern District of Florida for a health care fraud scheme that billed private health insurance companies approximately $110 million for addiction treatment services that were not medically necessary. GDSL was paid kickbacks for providing patients to addiction treatment facilities in the...
Mark Agresti, who claimed he devoted his 30- year career to helping people struggling with addiction, on Thursday was convicted of 12 charges of health care fraud for using his clients to perpetuate a $31.3 million insurance scam. Agresti, who was once director of psychiatry at the former Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach, faces a possible decades-long...
Dr. Mark Agresti insisted Kenneth Bailynson duped him into the scheme, centered around costly urine tests. Prosecutors and a jury thought otherwise.