{"id":352860,"date":"2010-02-22T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8c5f75d970b"},"modified":"2010-02-22T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:21:57","slug":"la-quinta-doctor-sentenced-in-false-billing-case-involving-aids-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352860","title":{"rendered":"LA Quinta doctor sentenced in false-billing case involving AIDS patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A La Quinta doctor who treated AIDS patients was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison in a case involving &quot;subdosing&quot; patients, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>George Steven Kooshian, 59, was also ordered to pay $660,955 in restitution to 18 insurance companies for patients who were only given partial doses of medication, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Los Angeles said. Kooshian had submitted billings for complete doses, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Kooshian pleaded guilty last year to two counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false statements relating to healthcare matters, the U.S. attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>Kooshian operated clinics in Garden Grove, Laguna Beach and Long Beach. He was charged with submitting false billings for medications to treat patients with AIDS, HIV and hepatitis, the U.S. attorney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During treatments, patients received partial medication or sometimes just saline, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Quinta doctor who treated AIDS patients was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison in a case involving &quot;subdosing&quot; patients, authorities said. George Steven Kooshian, 59, was also ordered to pay $660,955 in restitution to 18 insurance companies for patients who were only given partial doses of medication, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352860","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\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}