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Health Care & Hospital Law

Sep. 2, 2010

Hospital Exec Sentenced for Scheme

A former hospital CEO was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for his role in a Medicare and Medi-Cal fraud scheme that heaped unnecessary services on homeless and indigent patients recruited from Los Angeles' Skid Row.

By Emma Gallegos

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A former hospital CEO was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for his role in a Medicare and Medi-Cal fraud scheme that heaped unnecessary services on homeless and indigent patients recruited from Los Angeles' Skid Row.

Rudy Sabaratnam, the former CEO of the now-defunct City of Angels, pleaded guilty in 2008 to paying illegal kickbacks to recruit homeless people for...

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