P. (CA Dept. of Managed Health Care) v. Martello
Plaintiff and Respondent the Department of Managed Health Care (hereafter DMHC) initiated a regulatory action against Defendant and Appellant Jeannette Martello, a licensed physician and board-certified plastic surgeon, (hereafter Appellant) based on Appellant’s practice of “balance-billing” emergency department patients for her plastic surgery services. Appellant, in pro. per., appeals from a judgment entered against her after a bench trial, ordering Appellant to pay civil statutory penalties totaling $562,500 and enjoining her from directly billing patients treated in the emergency room for more than the co-payment, co-insurance and deductibles they are responsible for under their health plan.
We affirm.
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