Doctor Lawrence Eppelbaum Charged In Medicare Fraud Scheme
ATLANTA -- A 52-year-old physician has been charged with health care and tax fraud in what prosecutors describe as an elaborate scheme that involved a phony charity group and a Jewish day school.
Prosecutors said in 2004 Lawrence Eppelbaum created a purported charity group called "Back Pain Fund" that paid for Medicare patients to travel to Atlanta to receive treatment from his practice, travel to Florida or North Carolina for four days to visit a hot spring.
They said Eppelbaum tried to disguise his financial control over the fund by instructing parents of students at a Jewish school to make their tuition checks payable to the fund. He would then repay the school the amount of tuition plus another 25 percent.
Prosecutors said he billed Medicare about $15 million for the treatment.
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