Medicare database reveals top-paid doctors

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20. Dr. Salomon Melgen appears to be quite the operator (or crook).

Melgen has been in the national spotlight since agents from the FBI and federal Department of Health and Human Services raided his West Palm Beach office last month and hauled away dozens of boxes of materials.

Menendez, who has received more than $700,000 in direct and indirect campaign help from Melgen and has made personal trips to the Dominican Republic on Melgen’s private plane, acknowledged last week that his office contacted CMS and “raised concerns” about billing policies in 2009 and 2012. But Menendez denied trying to intervene with government regulators on Melgen’s behalf.
Melgen family members gave $33,700 to Menendez’s 2012 re-election campaign, $50,000 to the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and $60,400 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee while Menendez was its chairman during the 2010 election cycle. Melgen’s Vitreo-Retinal Consultants also gave $700,000 last year to Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC that poured $582,500 into Menendez’s re-election efforts.


Accused of over-billing Medicare by 8 million dollars.... where there's smoke, there's fire......


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/eye-doctor-salomon-melgen-lost-68-million-in-inves/nWK6B/