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Yorba Linda attorney charged in $154 million medical scam

By Jason Siegel

Attorney Roy Dickson and his accountant were charged over their alleged role in a $154 million rent-a-patient scam in Orange County. It is the largest medical insurance scam in the country, CBS 2 reported.

Dickson, an attorney at now defunct Unity Outpatient Surgery Center, was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged role in a scheme that to recruit patients to fraudulently bill insurance companies, undergoing unneeded surgeries for money or low-cost cosmetic procedures, CBS 2 reported.

He's charged with 106 counts on charges of grand theft, insurance fraud, make false and fraudulent claims and white collar sentencing enhancements for allegedly laundering up to $3 million.

Dickson was previously sanctioned at other local clinics for similar alleged misconduct, the Orange County Register reported.

He was suspended twice from practicing law, according to the California Bar Journal's web site. It reads that in December 2005 he was "suspended for two years,   stayed, placed on two years of probation with a 75-day suspension and was ordered   to take the MPRE within one year." In October 2001, he was "suspended for six months, stayed, and placed on four           years of probation."

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).