The two former owners of City of Angels Medical Center will pay $10 million as part of a consent judgment over allegations that they performed unnecessary medical work on homeless people recruited from skid row shelters as part of a Medicare fraud scheme.<\/p>\n
The case involves Los Angeles
\nbusinessman Robert Bourseau and Dr. Rudra Sabaratnam, who were accused by federal prosecutors of Medicare and
\nMedi-Cal fraud.<\/p>\n
Authorities alleged that City of Angels found healthy homeless people in downtown Los Angeles and brought them to various medical facilities, where they received medical treatment they didn’t need. The defendants then allegedly charged the government.<\/p>\n
"The "The City of Angels would then bill –Shelby Grad The two former owners of City of Angels Medical Center will pay $10 million as part of a consent judgment over allegations that they performed unnecessary medical work on homeless people recruited from skid row shelters as part of a Medicare fraud scheme. The case involves Los Angeles businessman Robert Bourseau and Dr. Rudra Sabaratnam, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ngovernment\u2019s complaint alleged that Bourseau and Sabaratnam directed a scheme
\nin which City of Angels paid \u201crecruiters\u201d employed at homeless shelters in the
\nskid row area of the city to deliver their homeless clients by ambulance to the
\nhospital for medical treatment regardless of whether their clients in fact
\nneeded or requested such treatment," a U.S. attorney said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe Medicare and Medi-Cal programs for a variety of medical services allegedly
\nrendered to the homeless patients, many of which were not medically necessary."<\/span><\/p>\n
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