People v. Pierce

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Operating under their company, P & R Med-Legal Medical Corporation (P & R), Dolphus Dwayne Pierce, a chiropractor, and Tomas Ballesteros Rios, a physician, conspired with others to defraud various workers' compensation insurance carriers. P & R contracted with physicians to perform cursory (if any) examinations of workers' compensation patients at chiropractic clinics, and then dispense prepackaged medications to these patients with little or no regard for medical need. Pierce and Rios contracted with a company to prepare and submit scanned medical reports and bills to…