A New York surgeon and two lawyers are the latest professionals to be sentenced for their roles in a massive massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between
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The scheme involved staged accidents, enlisting hundreds of disadvantaged people poor, homeless or addicted to drugs as "patients" who were subjected to unneeded surgeries, authorities said.
Orthopedic surgeon Andrew Dowd, MD, was sentenced to 102 months in prison for his role in a "trip-and-fall" fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said April 25.