Federal prosecutors on Tuesday revealed details in one of the bigger medical frauds ever discovered, implicating five men -- including the former chief financial officer of a Long Beach hospital and two surgeons -- who allegedly inflated nearly $600 million in medical billings.
Prosecutors contend the surgeons and other defendants committed various crimes related to schemes that saw dozens of physicians and other conspirators cashing in on a lucrative system of kickbacks in which patients were directed to hospitals in Long Beach and Hawaiian Gardens.