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.
The former medical director of a West Palm Beach sober living home was criminally convicted in Florida federal court Thursday for his role in an alleged scheme to bill tenants' insurance companies for $110 million worth of unnecessary drug tests.