FRAUD
Jane McLennan, Edinburgh Psychiatrist, accused of lying about a patient
The Herald An Edinburgh psychiatrist is alleged to have lied in a report on a patient to an employment tribunal By Helen McArdle Health Correspondent June 27, 2018 Psychiatrist Jane McLennan A PSYCHIATRIST has been accused of lying about a patient by falsely claiming he recorded telephone conversations with clients and “felt like hitting people at work”. Dr Jane McLennan, an expert in old age psychiatry from Edinburgh, is alleged to have knowingly made a string of false claims about the patient, known only as Mr A, in a damning psychiatric report. Dr McLennan, a consultant psychiatrist at the [...]
Edinburgh Psychiatrist Jane McLennan, “expert medical witness” – faces sanctions – audio tape proves she fabricated a damning report
The Herald Psychiatrist faces sanction over 'misleading and inaccurate' report on sacked Ministry of Justice man By Helen McArdle February 14, 2019 Psychiatrist Jane McLennan A PSYCHIATRIST known for her work as an expert medical witness fabricated a damning report on a patient who went on to lose his unfair dismissal claim against the Ministry of Justice, a tribunal has found. Dr Jane McLennan faces being suspended for acting dishonestly when she knowingly produced an "inaccurate and misleading" report on the man, known only as Mr A, following a consultation in August 2014. A fitness to practises tribunal found [...]
George David, Fremont psychiatrist, arrested Monday in Fraud case
San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area psychiatrist indicted in disability fraud scheme By Megan Cassidy February 6, 2019 Psychiatrist George David A federal grand jury has indicted a Bay Area psychiatrist and a Union City woman in what prosecutors describe as a scheme to defraud California’s disability program by securing benefits for people who lied about an illness, injury or pregnancy. Dr. Bay Area psychiatrist indicted in disability fraud scheme, 78, a Fremont psychiatrist, and Linda Nguyen, 66, were each charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and substantive mail fraud, according to a Jan. 29 indictment that was unsealed [...]
James Dilday, Psychiatrist – License Revoked in Arkansas now licensed in Alabama
The Associated Press State & Local Wire February 20, 2003 LR doctor accused of billing for visits that never occurred Psychiatrist James-Dilday A psychiatrist who once used health-care reform as a platform plank when he ran for statewide office has been accused by the state Insurance Department of billing insurance companies for dozens of operations and hundreds of office visits that never occurred. Dr. James C. Dilday, 46, of Little Rock, has pleaded innocent to theft and insurance fraud charges. After entering the pleas Friday in Little Rock District Court, Dilday was released on $50,000 bond. Dilday's attorney, Jack [...]
Ajit Trikha, Illinois Psychiatrist, Sentenced for Defrauding Medicare $1.755 million
Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois) Belleville psychiatrist sentenced to more than two years for fraud By Beth Hundsdorfer April 3, 2008 A Belleville psychiatrist received a 30-month prison sentence today after he admitted to defrauding Medicare of $1.755 million. Ajit Trikha, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud in June by overbilling Medicare and Medicaid, billing for services that weren't performed and exceeding number of patients allowed in group therapy sessions. Trikha pleaded guilty in June. John Stobbs, Trikha's attorney, didn't return calls for comment. On Thursday, U.S. District Chief Judge David Herndon sentenced Trikha to 30 months in [...]
Feds make Medicare fraud sweeps in Miami, nationwide
The Miami Herald Feds make Medicare fraud sweeps in Miami, nationwide By JAY WEAVER February 18, 2011 Miami lived up to its billing as the nation’s Medicare fraud capital on Thursday when authorities announced they charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and executives nationwide with conspiring to loot $225 million from the federal health insurance program. About one-third of the 111 people charged were from Miami. The takedown here and in eight other cities was touted by the Obama administration as the largest number of healthcare fraud arrests in U.S. history. The coordinated announcement of numerous indictments at press conferences [...]
Cold War Russian Psychiatrist Yan Goland Uses Hypnosis to “Cure” Gays
BuzzFeed This Russian Psychiatrist Will Cure Your Gayness Through Hypnosis “Distinguished Doctor of the Russian Federation” Yan Goland started “curing” gays, lesbians, and transsexuals when gay sex was outlawed in the Soviet Union, and is still at it today. By Max Seddon August 13, 2013 Meet Dr. Yan Goland, a psychiatrist in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Psychiatrist Yan Goland According to the Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Dr. Goland is the only doctor in the country who cures patients of their homosexual desires - none of his Soviet-era colleagues are left. “They tried to cure them through castration, hormone therapy, [...]
Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman, Daytona Beach, Sold Non-Existent Body Parts
News-Journal (Daytona Beach, Florida) Failed transplant leads officials to Ormond fugitive June 08, 2009 By Julie Murphy Erwin Langier was promised a lifesaving liver transplant when he traveled to the Philippines last year, but federal officials say instead the Canadian lived out his last days in a foreign hospital, away from his wife. She stayed behind to handle the financial arrangements for her dying husband. And, nearly $100,000 later, what she is left with are memories tainted by the knowledge she was duped by a former Ormond Beach psychiatrist who investigators say started scamming people internationally more than 40 years [...]
James Grigson – most controversial psychiatrist in the United States (1981)
The Washington Post Life or Death: It's All in Your Mind -- or His By Fred Barbash February 27, 1981 Psychiatrist James Grigson At least 50 times in the past few years, Dallas psychiatrist James Grigson has appeared in court for prosecutors seeking the death penalty and has predicted that criminal defendants would, without question, always be dangerous. And at least 50 times, juries have heeded his words and sentenced the defendant to die. By now, it is a routine. Grigson examines the defendant for about 90 minutes, and later appears before the jury, when it is considering whether [...]
Mark Willner, South Florida Psychiatrist, convicted on Medicare fraud charges
Agents with the FBI and Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General are seen outside the American Therapeutic Corp. building in October 2010 in Miami. Federal agents raided the building during an operation that resulted in the arrest of four in what is being called one of the nation's biggest Medicare fraud cases. Miami Herald MEDICARE FRAUD Two South Florida doctors, 3 others convicted on Medicare fraud charges A Miami federal jury convicted five people of Medicare-related fraud in a case involving the nation’s biggest mental-health racket. By Jay Weaver Two South Florida doctors stared in [...]