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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“”Can a Chiropractor prescribe medications or not?””
A chiropractor has no desire to prescribe medicine so what’s your point? MEDICINE is the cure all? Do people ever get off medication once started? Not likely. People can and do get relief from chiropractic and can walk away. They are not tied to a DC forever.
Chiropractic works, is like saying medicine works. Doctors can still commit fraud. I was wondering how people can afford homes in studio city. Guess you need to cheat people or write scripts about how evil white people are.
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