Weinberger attracted national media attention back in 2004 when he fled the country after former patients filed complaints against him. He vanished while traveling with his wife to celebrate her 30th birthday in the Greek Islands. At the time, his wife said the couple was vacationing on a 79-foot powerboat in Mykonos and she woke up to find him gone.
After two years of being on the run, a federal grand jury in Indiana indicted Weinberger on 22 counts of health care fraud for overbilling insurance companies for surgical procedures that were not needed or never done. The case was put on hold while an international manhunt for Weinberger was underway.
Former sinus surgeon Mark Weinberger was convicted of 22 counts of health care fraud in northwest Indiana in 2012. Now he’s out of prison and one of his.