Louisiana Doctor Charged in $32.7 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

A Louisiana doctor has been charged for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $32.7 million by submitting claims for medically unnecessary definitive urine drug testing services, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

According to the DOJ, Michael Dole owned and operated a pain management practice which had an in-house drug testing laboratory and from 2010 to 2023, billed Medicare over $32.7 million for testing of of drugs in urine specimens from patients, despite a lack of documentation of use or suspicion of use of those drugs. Medicare subsequently reimbursed Dole over $11.7 million for the medically ...