Healthcare/Hospital Law
Jul. 27, 2011
Fraudulent billing lands doctor in jail
A Corona del Mar cancer doctor was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution for fraudulently billing government and private health plans for cancer drugs.
By Mandy Jackson
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Corona del Mar cancer doctor Glen R. Justice was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana for fraudulently billing government and private health plans for cancer drugs that were never given to patients.
Justice pleaded guilty in May to five counts of health care fraud. Through his Pacific Coast Hematology/Onco...
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