Friday, August 20, 2010
Police beat Orthopedic surgeon sentenced
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Dr. Robert Tomlinson, a Fayetteville and Rogers orthopedic surgeon, received a 10-month sentence today for health care fraud. He billed insurance programs for services and procedures not performed. He'll serve the second half of the sentence on home detention with electronic monitoring. He was ordered to make $66,000 in restitution.
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In a case like this they need to make 100% sure the issue was not sloppy bookkeeping or negligence then dump his lying cheating stealing ass in a dirty disgusting prison for some hard time.
To country club member, masion living types that will deter every white collar criminal in his in hospital, church, gated community, club, medical association etc.
The fear and hideousness of prison is the only thing that will get their attention.
A fine, big fn deal, they got plenty of money. Damage their reputation, big fn deal, to them it is "everybody is doing it but I got caught".
But the thought of a barred cell to keep them in after their previous life of keeping the hoi paloi out with neighborhood guard shacks, electronic gates and exclusive clubs is what will rock their world.
Every time you hear someone saying to kill public health care because of waste and fraud, this guy is the one to blame. His greed and actions are doing more to undermine the ability of "the greatest country in the history of the planet" to supply healthcare to all than.
He gives every greedy "I got mine" jerk out there a place to stand to demand "privatize SS and Medicare". "Medicare/medicaid is fraught with waste and is too expensive!"
The fact that he is only making restitution of $66,000 says that either he just got started or they didn't find it all or that he is a petty little crook. Probably a little of all of it.
10 months, $66,000, dude I make more than that and I am not a doctor.
Was that little gamble worth it? Next time, just go buy a lotterty ticket.
One surgeon doing hard time will deter more medical fraud than 10,000 extra beancounter investigators combing through their books.
Every criminal tax evader, over billing, bribe giving neighbor of his will now wake in a cold sweat at 3 am since now they have an up close and personal reminder that consequences are real.
The chill and deterant effect of his normal golf foursome having to find a new fourth will cause them to curb their graft and potentially nip millions in fraud in the bud.(crooks hang with crooks, you're known by the company you keep)
Just think, for the rest of his life when he says he wasn't gang raped in prison by a gang of minority gang members none of his friends or family will believe him because they will think "of course he would want to keep that a secret" and they will suspect that since homosexualism is learned, the ordeal has probably recruited him to the rainbow side.
Now forever more he will be known as "hey look there's that crook that got ganged in prison" guy.
Was $66,000 worth it?
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