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Southern California doctor sentenced to prison for $45 million Medicare fraud scheme

Headline from Border Report

(KTLA) -- A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding Medicare out of more than $45 million and using the money to fund a luxury lifestyle. Violetta Mailyan, 45, of Glendale, owned and operated Healthy Way Medical Center, a clinic that claimed to provide beauty an…

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  1. Border Report

    Southern California doctor sentenced to prison for $45 million Medicare fraud scheme (opens Border Report)

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    (KTLA) -- A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding Medicare out of more than $45 million and using the money to fund a luxury lifestyle. Violetta Mailyan, 45, of Glendale, owned and operated Healthy Way Medical Center, a clinic that claimed to provide beauty an…

  2. Los Angeles Times

    Cybertruck, crossbow and beach vacations: How feds say a California Botox doctor spent $45 million in Medicare fraud (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Violetta Mailyan was convicted in May of billing Botox injections that were never provided.

  3. Foxla

    California doctor sentenced to 15 years in nation's largest $45M Botox fraud scheme (opens Foxla)

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    A federal judge sentenced a Glendale doctor to 15 years in prison for orchestrating a $45 million health care fraud scheme that systematically billed Medicare for fake and unneeded Botox treatments to bankroll a lavish lifestyle.

  4. UPI

    Calif. Botox doctor gets 15 years for $45 million Medicare fraud (opens UPI)

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    UPI's feed description

    A California doctor who fraudulently billed Medicare $45 million for Botox injections while she was vacationing was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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