A health care fraud scheme resulted in a significant sentence for an optometric physician. The individual must pay nearly $7 million in restitution and serve a prison term. This follows an admission of submitting false claims totaling about $11 million, with approximately $6.9 million received.
Further details are available from the source. The sentence includes a period of supervised release after prison.
The case involved false claims to government health programs, including Medicare and TennCare.
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