Beverly Hills surgeon pleads guilty in sober living fraud case

A surgeon and his girlfriend have pleaded responsible in an insurance fraud scheme that concerned recruiting individuals at Southern California sober dwelling houses to undergo unnecessary surgeries and other methods.

Randy Rosen ran Wellness Wave, a surgical center in Beverly Hills, and girlfriend Liza Vismanos owned Lotus Laboratories, a toxicology lab in Los Alamitos.

Prosecutors said they billed well being insurance coverage providers some $676 million for professional medical methods and exams and collected millions in reimbursements, in accordance to court docket files received by the Orange County Register.

Rosen pleaded guilty past 7 days to many counts of distributing fraudulent insurance plan promises with an aggravated white collar crime improvement, while scores of other charges ended up dismissed, the Register claimed Monday. He faces 10 decades at the rear of bars, but will get credit history for two a long time he has previously served.

Vismanos pleaded responsible to insurance policy fraud and had dozens of costs dismissed.

Prosecutors claimed the pair employed “body brokers” to find and pay sober dwelling facility clients to have needless tests, cortisone pictures and implants of Naltrexone, a drug that can decrease cravings for opioids and alcoholic beverages.

Insurance plan firms were being then billed for the procedures, authorities claimed.

The applied the dollars to fund a lavish way of living that incorporated a $3.2 million mansion with views of the Pacific Ocean full with lap pool and wine cellar, according to court documents.