Samson Orusa, 61, billed federal health insurance programs for hundreds of medically unnecessary services out of his Clarksville medical clinic, according to an Aug. 25 news release from the Justice Department.
According to evidence presented at trial, Mr. Orusa required Medicare patients and others to visit the clinic up to six times each month and to undergo unnecessary steroid injections to obtain their prescriptions, in addition to altering progress visit notes to justify higher billing rates.
In addition to his prison sentence, Mr. Orusa was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution.
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