Installing Unnecessary Pacemakers

Healthcare fraud is a serious issue, and we've already seen some examples of it from a few dubious physicians. The deception has truly gone off the tracks when it involves implanting things in people, which is exactly what happened in Kentucky with Anis Chalhoub.

Chalhoub was given a prison term of over three years and compelled to pay a fine of $250,000. He also lost his license. Giving them needless pacemakers was his crime. Evidence suggested that many of the 234 treatments he administered to patients between 2007 and 2011 were performed on people who didn't match the requirements.

Even when the patients' ailments were not life-threatening, he occasionally persuaded patients they would die if they didn't obtain the pacemaker. As you might expect, his primary motivation for the deception was the money he received for doing the procedure each time.