U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/a>, Baker, 58, was found guilty of six counts of health care fraud after falsely diagnosing individuals to justify unnecessary screenings \u2014 and even impossibly claimed that male patients had cervical cancer.<\/p>\nAuthorities say that from 2018 to 2019, the greedy gal worked as an independent contractor for a company that claimed to provide telehealth services \u2014 and signed a slew of orders for pricey testing after phone calls with patients that often lasted under 60 seconds.<\/p>\n
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DOJ Criminal Division Head Matthew R. Galeotti. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The DOJ also alleges that she incorrectly informed clients they were being screened for cancer at no cost \u2014 even though the tests did not actually identify any existing disease.<\/p>\n
The feds say the labs involved received over $1.5 million in reimbursements for the bogus orders \u2014 and charge that Baker accepted kickbacks and bribes from the telehealth company that she also did not disclose in a subsequent bankruptcy filing.<\/p>\n
\u201cLawson Baker shamelessly exploited her medical license and the trust of vulnerable patients to enrich herself,\u201d says Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti<\/strong> of the DOJ\u2019s Criminal Division.<\/p>\nShe faces up to 10 years in prison on each count and is scheduled to be sentenced in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook\/Scharmaine Lawson Baker New Orleans nurse practitioner Scharmaine Lawson Baker was convicted for her role in a $12.1…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-152414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042592188527203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Facebook\/Scharmaine Lawson Baker<\/p>\n