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Posted on 05/03/2019 1:04:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fifteen Southern California chiropractors have been arrested in a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme which was run by their Studio City colleague, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Friday.
Most of the chiropractors were arrested in a sweep Thursday.
Yury Chernega, 47, of Studio City, was the ringleader of the scheme in which he referred new patients to fellow colleagues, who in turn filed fake automobile collision medical claims on behalf of those patients, the DA’s office said.
Between 2015 and 2018, Chernega then received $6 million in illegal kickback fees for the referrals, prosecutors said. Meanwhile, the 15 chiropractors defrauded about 30 insurance companies to the tune of a combined approximately $500,000, the DA’s office said.
Chernega did not report the illegal income on his tax returns, the complaint alleges.
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Chernega did not report the illegal income on his tax returns, the complaint alleges.
Not a good return on investment for the bone crackers.
Chiropractic, especially upper cervical, has done wonders for me.
I have had long history of oddball muscle and orthopedic problems most of my life.
“I say that chiropractic itself is as much
a fraud as astrology.”
It’s worked for me many times.
Why would 15 chiropractors pay $6M in kickbacks for referral of 1/2M in insurance company payments?
AM I missing something or am I reading mindless dribble?
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It’s dribless minddle.
Well I certainly believe in astrology, but then we Pisces are like that.
This makes NO SENSE to me also!!!! WTH???
Well, I suppose that there are good chiropractors, and that there are bad chiropractors. But when I see an ad where some “doctor” promises something crazy, that doctor ALWAYS turns out to be a chiropractor.
Here’s just one example. A local chiropractor has been running an ad saying that if you’re always tired, you probably have lime disease. His treatment? Rectal infusion of ozone (yeah, you read that right).
Their alignment was off.
Ozone? Wow. If I was lazy, that would indeed
get me up and moving around.
Russians?
A regular United Nations of names involved...
Not a lawyer, but how do you report criminal income?
Ringleader got $6 mil in kickbacks plus the $500k from insurance companies for fake claims related to auto accidents.
Garbled story, as usual for MSM these days.
” was the ringleader of the scheme in which he referred new patients to fellow colleagues, who in turn filed fake automobile collision medical claims on behalf of those patients, the DA’s office said”
I heard about this same scheme back in 1980. In Los Angeles. As perennial here as illegal aliens.
Good chiropractors are nearly as effective as a physical therapists, in my experience.
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