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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

Dec. 27, 2022

DOJ drops Medicare fraud charges against multiple doctors

In the motion to dismiss the claims against the defendants, Kendall Brill & Kelly partner Janet I. Levine countered that the indictment’s “only allegation of fraud is that certain time sheets were falsified — yet these time sheets were neither submitted to nor relied upon by any governmental entity.”

The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego dropped criminal charges against health care providers accused of committing Medicare fraud a month before the case was scheduled for trial. The charges were dismissed in a one-page order Thursday by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Stanton in the Central District of California.

"On behalf of our client, Dr. Daniel Kendall, we're pleased that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ca...

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