"John Oxendine, as the former state-wide insurance commissioner, knew the importance of honest dealings between doctors and insurance companies," U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said in a release. "But for personal profit he willfully conspired with a physician to order hundreds of unnecessary lab tests, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. He will now be held accountable for violating the public's trust." Credit: deagreez/Adobe Stock
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, a charge that arose from a more than $2.5 million scheme that netted Oxendine and a co-conspirator hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.
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Steve Hallo
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