$600Mbilled by one hospital's 15-year workers' comp kickback scheme
One Long Beach hospital's 15-year kickback scheme billed workers' compensation insurers roughly $600 million before its owner's 63-month sentence.
Michael Drobot paid doctors and chiropractors to refer patients for spinal surgery, using shell companies to inflate implant device prices and fund the kickbacks. He was sentenced in January 2018.
Source: CBS News Los Angeles (Associated Press). Read more: workers comp kickback fraud · case file