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Litigation

Jun. 27, 2013

Health care consortium and owner hit with civil RICO suit over billing practices

The largest provider of worker's compensation insurance in California is suing the operator of a Long Beach-based health care consortium and its parent medical group for more than $150 million in allegedly fraudulent billing practices.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The largest provider of worker's compensation insurance in California is suing the owner and operator of a Long Beach-based health care consortium and its parent medical group - both of which have ties to an ongoing federal criminal investigation - for more than $160 million in allegedly fraudulent billing practices.


The suit, filed on behalf of the State Compensation Insurance Fund, alleges Mic...

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