Clinic gets 8-year timeout for fraud

Published September 11, 2014 5:42pm ET



A Florida clinic that performed medically unnecessary tests on patients to get more money from federal heathcare programs will be allowed to participate in the same programs after an eight-year hiatus.

The Jacksonville-area Sleep Medicine Center and two of its physicians, Dr. Hubert Zachary and Dr. George Restea, submitted Medicare and Tricare claims for studies patients either didn’t need or never received.

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