In the US, a doctor from Glendale was sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding Medicare of $45 million.
Armenian-born doctor Violetta Maylian, who ran the Derech Berea Medical Center clinic in Glendale, California, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of large-scale fraud. This is reported by the US Department of Justice.
According to the investigators, Mailian filed fictitious bills under the state health insurance program Medicare for the alleged performance of Botox injections in the amount of more than 45 million dollars. The procedures were not performed at all or had no medical indications. During the investigation, facts of falsification of medical records and falsification of patient signatures were also revealed.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court required the convicted to pay compensation to Medicare in the amount of 32.9 million dollars and ordered the confiscation of her assets worth more than 16 million dollars, including real estate, securities and bank accounts.
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