Legal Opinion

United States v. Borrasi

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 4, 2011No. 09-4088PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Roland Borrasi, a medical doctor, was convicted of Medicare fraud after he accepted a salary from a hospital in exchange for continually referring patients to the facility, a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b. In this appeal, Borrasi attacks both his conviction and his sentence. We find that the district court did not err by admitting minutes from hospital committee meetings to prove attendance records while excluding discussion of reports to which the minutes refer, as the latter constituted inadmissible hearsay. Because the Medicare fraud statute criminalizes payments…

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3Cited by46 opinions

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