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Nurse Practitioner Who Wrote About Medical Necessity Sentenced in $12 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
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Nurse Practitioner Who Wrote About Medical Necessity Sentenced in $12 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
A nurse practitioner who presented herself as an authority on medical necessity and patient-provider ethics has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison. Prosecutors said Dr. Scharmaine Lawson participated in a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests. Baker, 59, of Fulshear, Texas, was sentenced to 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release after a federal jur…
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