Lodi orthopedic surgeon Gary Wisner found guilty of insurance fraud

A Lodi orthopedic surgeon was convicted Thursday of 10 felony counts of overall health care insurance coverage fraud.

Gary Wisner was found responsible in a Sacramento County Exceptional Courtroom of defrauding Medi-Cal and Medicare by administering excessive and medically unjustifiable X-rays to his sufferers among 2012 and 2016.

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“When health care practitioners abuse their energy, it is really usually at the price of patients below their care,” California Lawyer Common Rob Bonta explained in a news launch. “Gary Wisner abused the place he held as a health care provider by subjecting his individuals to unnecessary processes to safe extra profits.”

The California Department of Justice, Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (DMFEA) was notified by numerous governing administration offices in November 2016 of suspected fraud by Wisner in overbilling the Medi-Cal and Medicare courses. 

Wisner, who operated a professional medical clinic in Lodi, would administer X-rays even in program business visits and would X-ray various parts of a patient’s overall body — regardless of whether it had any relation to a patient’s health care situation, the DMFEA investigation.

Evidence introduced at demo confirmed that about a around 4-yr interval, Wisner subjected 10 patients to hundreds of avoidable X-rays at his clinic.

Wisner is also the subject of an independent prison criticism submitted by the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office environment for worker’s payment fraud.