October 01, 2020
An ad agency owner who helped market outside physicians in what prosecutors called a $200 million hospital referral fraud scheme was sentenced on Thursday to three months of probation.
August 11, 2020
The anesthesiologist at the center of a $200 million hospital referral fraud scheme has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $82 million in restitution, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
March 23, 2020
A Texas federal judge has denied motions for a new trial by surgeons and others convicted of a $40 million kickback scheme to steer patients to a Dallas medical center, saying their various arguments are meritless.
November 12, 2019
A Texas surgeon convicted for his role in a $40 million kickback scheme to steer patients to a Dallas hospital came up short in his bid for a new trial, prosecutors told a Texas federal judge, saying he can't show how the anti-kickback statute was unconstitutionally vague.
July 29, 2019
Attorneys for spine surgeon Michael Rimlawi, convicted for his role in a $40 million bribery and kickback scheme aimed at steering surgical patients to a Dallas hospital, on Monday said he deserves a new trial, calling the anti-kickback statute unconstitutionally vague as applied to him on the facts of the case.
April 30, 2019
The world was moving in slow motion for Winston & Strawn LLP partner Tom Melsheimer as he sat in a Dallas courtroom in early April listening to a district judge read out "guilty" after "guilty" while he waited to find out if he had successfully defended his client, one of several surgeons accused of taking kickbacks from a hospital.
April 09, 2019
Four doctors and three others were found guilty on Tuesday in Texas federal court for their roles in a $40 million bribery and kickback scheme aimed at steering surgical patients to Forest Park Medical Center.
April 03, 2019
Doctors accused of taking $40 million in bribes and kickbacks for scheduling surgeries at Forest Park Medical Center made their final pleas to a Texas federal jury Wednesday, saying they believed marketing agreements between them and the hospital were legitimate because they were lawyer-approved.
March 11, 2019
A Dallas hospital co-founder told a Texas federal jury Monday that "we didn't hide expectations" from doctors and staff that $40 million in alleged payments they received from marketing and consulting agreements were for bringing surgeries to the hospital.
February 27, 2019
A Dallas hospital co-founder told a Texas federal jury Wednesday that $40 million worth of marketing contracts between the facility and its doctors and staff were "papered up" to disguise that the hospital was illegally paying physicians to perform surgeries at the site.