P. v. Dickson CA4/3
The People appeal from the trial court’s restitution order requiring the defendants to repay $16 million to insurance companies they defrauded over a two-year period in a medical billing scam. The district attorney argues the court abused its discretion in failing to set the restitution sum at more than $22 million as the full amount insurance companies paid on every claim submitted for health care at defendants’ surgery centers during the two-year period — including by health care providers not involved in the scheme. Based on the trial court’s finding there was “legitimate patient care mixed liberally with insurance fraud,” the evidence amply supports the court’s decision to award less than the $22.7 million the district attorney requested.
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