An Ohio physician has agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve allegations that he submitted fraudulent Medicare claims related to electro-acupuncture devices, the Justice Department announced Friday.
According to the DOJ, from 2016 to 2018, Dr. Ronald Ambrosia improperly billed Medicare for the application of percutaneous electrical nerve pulse stimulation devices in an office setting, billing them as surgically implanted neurostimulators despite the procedures not involving any surgery, anesthesia, or taking place in an operating room.
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