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Francisco Bolea
The Miami Herald PSYCHIATRIST CHARGED IN MEDICAID FRAUD By Herald Staff August 3, 1984 A Miami psychiatrist has been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $124,000 in Medicaid payments in 1982 and 1983. Dr. Francisco Bolea, who operated the Institute of Mental Health at 2601 NE Second Ave., was arrested Wednesday by investigators from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Florida Auditor General's Office, said Jack Nulty, special agent in charge. Bolea, 36, of 13343 SW 103rd Pl., was charged with racketeering, grand theft, 10 counts of filing false Medicaid claims and 10 counts of wrongfully receiving Medicaid payments. [...]
Wisconsin Psychiatrist Alice Dean Convicted of Fraud
The Associated Press August 13, 1980 Psychiatrist Sentenced to India for Medicaid Fraud Wisconsin's attorney general is unhappy with a Milwaukee judge's decision to send suburban psychiatrist Alice Dean to India to serve an alternative sentence for Medicaid fraud. Ms. Dean, convicted of obtaining $13,285 in fraudulent payments, has been directed to spend three years in southern India treating needy children. The sentence also requires that she repay the $13,285 within 90 days. The maximum sentence would have been 18 years in prison plus fines of up to $11,000. Saying the sentence may be the "first of its kind in [...]
The Orange County Register (California) February 29, 2008 Friday 1 Edition Psychiatrist suspended over bills to Medi-Cal; Medical Board finds improper charges; doctor's attorney denies any fraud. BYLINE: By COURTNEY PERKES; The Orange County Register SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. Cover_B LENGTH: 594 words A psychiatrist who once worked for the Orange County Health Care Agency has been suspended from practice for one year by the California Medical Board over Medi-Cal billing practices. Dr. John Rajaratnam was found to have billed Medi-Cal for examining patients on days when he had not seen them, according to legal documents. In one case, the state [...]
George Pollock
Chicago Tribune September 6, 1988 Tuesday, SPORTS FINAL EDITION 'AS WILL TURNS' A REAL-WORLD SOAP BYLINE: By James Warren, Maurice Possley & Joseph Tybor. SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. 3; ZONE: C LENGTH: 1533 words Will contests can be oh so ugly, and a tussle involving a prominent Chicago psychiatrist and a millionaire virtually cut out of his wealthy mother's estate is as unseemly as any. The case, due for trial in Cook County Probate Court later this month and already suitable for melodramatic recounting on "As The World Turns," is a contest over the $5 million estate of Anne P. Lederer, [...]
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) December 13, 2007 Thursday Rules spared doctor background check New Arkansas criminal review wasn't required for psychiatrist in drug case BYLINE: BY JOHN KRUPA ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE SECTION: ARKANSAS LENGTH: 753 words The Arkansas State Medical Board didn't uncover a new doctor's April drug arrest in Kansas because he already held an inactive Arkansas medical license and renewals do not require fresh criminal background checks, board officials said Wednesday. Crossett police officers arrested Paul J. Loop, former psychiatrist at the Ashley County Medical Center, on Dec. 3 after they found crack cocaine hidden in a Tylenol bottle [...]
Zane Parzen
United Press International December 23, 1981 Dateline: San Diego A psychiatrist who was ordered to pay $2.5 million to a woman for having sex with her during therapy sessions Wednesday was accused in another sex-therapy lawsuit of breaking up the marriage of a San Diego couple. Dr. Robert Gardner, who recently began a residency in psychiatry at University of California at San Diego, filed the suit against Dr. Zane Parzen in Superior Court. Gardner said in the medical malpractice suit that Parzen had sex with his wife during therapy sessions from 1977 to 1980. He said his wife went to [...]
Suzanne King, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, impregnated by patient – license suspended – “immediate and serious threat to the public health”
The Boston Globe Sex scandal costs license of Brookline psychiatrist By Richard Saltus August 12, 1994 In an unusual disciplinary action, the state Board of Registration in Medicine has summarily suspended the license of a Brookline psychiatrist accused of having sex with a former patient by whom she said she became pregnant, officials said yesterday. The medical board's action Wednesday evening against Dr. Suzanne K. King is extraordinary because it shortcuts the normal legal requirement that a physician not be barred from practice without a hearing. Summary suspension is permissible, however, when the board asserts that a physician's continued practice [...]
The Boston Globe May 2, 2005, Monday THIRD EDITION PASSENGER WITH WEAPON ARRESTED AT AIRPORT SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 163 words A man from West Virginia was arrested over the weekend after he tried to walk through security at Logan Airport with a loaded gun packed in one of his carry-on bags, police said yesterday. Deleno H. Webb III, 65, a psychiatrist from Huntington, W. Va., was on his way to catch a Delta flight home Saturday afternoon when he put his backpack through an X-ray machine in Terminal A, police said. The machine's operator saw the outline of [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire February 3, 2008 Sunday 3:49 PM GMT Former psychiatrist gets jail term for illegal prescriptions SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 110 words DATELINE: STROUDSBURG Pa. A former psychiatrist from East Stroudsburg is sentenced to six to 18 months in county jail. Prosecutors say Harold Pascal illegally prescribed potentially addictive drugs in an overcrowded, poorly run office. Pascal was charged in 2006. He later surrendered his medical license and pleaded no contest to two counts of illegal medical prescriptions and one count of Medicaid fraud. At Friday's sentencing in Monroe County Court, former co-workers [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire September 29, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle Woman's family files wrongful-death suit against Kevorkian associate SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 355 words DATELINE: RIO RANCHO, N.M. The sister of a woman who was allegedly given a drug overdose has filed a wrongful-death suit against the retired psychiatrist accused of killing her. Prosecutors allege Georges Reding, 74, of Galesburg, Mich., administered a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital to Donna Brennan, 54, in August 1998. A Sandoval County grand jury indicted Reding Aug. 19 on charges of first-degree murder, practicing medicine without a license, trafficking [...]