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Feds target physician-owned companies for unnecessary surgeries

By CBS News  
   September 25, 2014

Federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit last week against a network of physician-owned companies. They said it involved 35 doctors nationwide and that it led some of them to perform risky surgeries that were not necessary, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor. Last year CBS News reported a story focused on a doctor named Aria Sabit. He is now accused of overbilling Medicare and harming patients, simply to sell more hardware. Kevin Reynold's mother, Lillian Kaulback, suffered serious complications after Sabit performed back surgery on her. She passed away in May 2011.

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