Yuba City Doctor Charged In $1.3 Million Medicare Scam
YUBA CITY (AP) - A Yuba City doctor is facing charges in connection with an alleged $1.3 million Medicare scam.
The Appeal-Democrat of Marysville reports that Irving Schwartz was arrested and arraigned in federal court on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors accuse Schwartz of writing dozens of prescriptions for power wheelchairs in Southern California between July 2007 and September 2008 to patients who didn't need them. They say Schwartz sold the bogus prescriptions for $300 kickbacks.
Prosecutors allege that other suspects in the case then used Schwartz's prescriptions to claim more than $1.3 million in Medicare reimbursements.
A woman from Schwartz's medical office told the Appeal-Democrat that he had no comment.
At least three other people have also been charged.
Schwartz has been ordered to return to federal court in San Diego on July 31.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.)
