One doctor served prison time for health-care fraud. Another has been disciplined by regulators five times, on charges including dangerous overuse of anesthesia. A third devotes his practice to a controversial therapy that Medicare won’t cover.
That didn’t stop Medicare from paying them, even though they also billed in extremely unusual ways. They’re among 163 Texas caregivers who led the nation in per-patient use of certain procedures, a Dallas Morning News analysis of Medicare data shows.