Legal Opinion
United States v. Memar
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 17, 2018No. 17-3098PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
*654Anyone who has encountered medical billing, either from the provider side or the patient side, would agree that it could kindly be described as complex. But that does not mean that the rules are impossible to decipher, or that anything goes. There is a line between honest billing and fraud, and in the present case, the government charged Dr. Omeed Memar with crossing it.
The government focused on eight cases in which Memar diagnosed patients with a precancerous condition known as actinic keratosis, which produces distinctive skin lesions. He treated the patients in question…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Puckett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Douglas Hicks v. Randall HeppCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2017
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