"John Oxendine, as the former state-wide insurance commissioner, knew the importance of honest dealings between doctors and insurance companies," U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said in a release. "But for personal profit he willfully conspired with a physician to order hundreds of unnecessary lab tests, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. He will now be held accountable for violating the public's trust." Credit: deagreez/Adobe Stock
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, a charge that arose from a more than $2.5 million scheme that netted Oxendine and a co-conspirator hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.
Oxendine, who served as insurance commissioner from 1995-2011, Dr. Jeffrey Gallups and other co-conspirators submitted insurance claims for medically unnecessary pharmacogenetic, molecular genetic and toxicology testing, according to the attorney's office. Doctors associated with Gallups' ENT practice were pressured into ordering these unnecessary tests from Texas-based lab Next Health.
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