2 More Are Arrested in Surgery Insurance Scam
Two administrators of a Buena Park clinic on Tuesday became the latest to be arrested in a scheme that recruited people to undergo unnecessary surgery in exchange for money or low-cost cosmetic procedures.
Rosalinda Landon, 60, and Dee Francis, 56, were arrested in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, respectively, for allegedly helping the Unity Outpatient Surgery Center generate more than $90 million in fraudulent medical bills in 2002 and 2003.
The clinic’s former administrator, Tam Vu Pham; his wife, Huong Thien Ngo; and her aunt, Lan Nguyen, pleaded guilty in December to bilking insurance companies out of more than $14 million by coaching patients to submit fraudulent claims.
Seven other former associates of the clinic have also been charged.
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