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Feds charge Florida addiction doctor with billing fraud
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32801
Subject(s) - addiction , addiction treatment , private insurance , medical emergency , family medicine , business , medicine , health insurance , environmental health , psychiatry , law , health care , political science
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested Michael J. Ligotti, D.O., of Delray Beach, Florida, for billing Medicare and private insurance companies for $681 million in unnecessary urine tests. Ligotti owned and operated Whole Health, a private clinic, which offered addiction and other treatment programs, and he also was the “medical director” of more than 50 addiction treatment programs and sober homes.