Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas Bruce Vest, Also Known as T. Bruce Vest, Doing Business as Doctors Clinic
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 1997No. 95-3671PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Thomas Bruce Vest is, by all accounts, not your ordinary medical doctor. Vest is both an internist and a radiologist — an unusual combination in the field of medicine. Vest claims this combination allowed him to practice a new method of preventive medicine at his $10 million, state-of-the-art Doctors Clinic in Alton, Illinois. The United States, however, claims that Vest used his position as an internist to order unnecessary medical tests conducted at his own clinic, thereby bilking patients, private insurance companies, and the government out of thousands of dollars.…
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