On November 14, medical practitioners Drs. Desi Barroga and Deno Barroga found themselves in legal hot water after being indicted and subsequently arrested for allegedly submitting fraudulent claims totaling $12 million for an array of healthcare services, such as corticosteroid injections. They also stand accused of illegally distributing hydrocodone, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
Court documents state that the accused ran a pain management clinic based in Dallas. There, they indiscriminately prescribed heavy doses of powerful narcotics like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and morphine to patients after minute-long monthly visits.
The Barroga brothers, in many instances, are in fact being accused of claiming to have administered over eighty injections to a single patient during one day of service. They allegedly supported these fraudulent claims by concocting phony medical documents.
All these illicit activities allegedly let the doctors bill healthcare benefit schemes to the tune of over $50 million. The actual payments they received apparently went to the tune of nearly $12 million.
