Memphis physician indicted for insurance fraud
Compliance Monitor, January 28, 2004
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced January 20 that a federal grand jury returned a 115-count indictment against Rande Lazar. Lazar practiced as a physician at Otolaryngology Consultants of Memphis.
According to a DOJ press release, Lazar submitted false claims for payment to health care benefit programs from 1996 until recently. The indictment notes Lazar billed for performing frontal sinus surgery on more than 100 children age five and younger.
The indictment also states that children are not born with frontal sinuses and usually begin to develop them around age seven or eight.
For more details and other alleged facets of Lazar's billing scheme, including falsely taking credit for surgeries, and lying about time spent with patients, click here.
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