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MD still practicing medicine after being convicted for insurance fraud five times.
By Lynda Appell
There are many good, trustworthy physicians throughout the world. Unfortunately there are few that can't be trusted. There are quite a few reasons to be considered a bad doctor. There are the quacks who arn't really MDs or DOs. They're the ones who claim they can cure just about anything with strange contraptions, gizmos etc. Machines that only they know how to operate. The type that tells their patients (victims) that the medical establishment is persecuting him or her. Conversely I don't mean to imply if a health care practioner offers alternative and/or complementary medicine they are necessarily quacks. To me a quack is somebody who misrepresenting him or herself as an MD or DO. There is a different kind of fraud. That of insurance fraud. That is ripping off insurance companies with phony claims forms. Putting in claims for services not done. Fifteen years ago I came in contact with an internist/cardiologist who was later found guilty of such fraud. Little did I know that after he was convicted this was his sixth conviction. Why he was permitted to keep on practicing medicine after five convictions truly puzzles me. Even if he practiced in different states wouldn't that state licenzing boards know he was found guilty of insurance fraud? To read more about him, you can go to the Mother Jones periodical site. His name is Richard J.Kones. Please note the Richard Kones of the TX Med. Center is a different health care professional.
He was found guilty of 1.5 million dollars in phony medical claims. In other words, the insurance firms paid for medical services never rendered. Source. NY Times 12/10/81. Since 1981 he went back to his old ways of defrauding insurance business. In 1994 he was found guilty once more of the same crime. His sentence was six years. It confuses me why he wasn't given a stiffer sentence since this was convicted five times before. No idea where he is now. Hopefully not practicing medicine.
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