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3 doctors held in health insurance scam
Arrests bring the total to 17 the number of those accused of roles in doing unneeded procedures at Buena Park clinic.
By Christine Hanley, Times Staff Writer
May 17, 2007

Likened to "body snatchers" by Orange County's top prosecutor, three doctors were arrested Wednesday for their alleged roles in an elaborate insurance fraud scheme in which hundreds of patients across the U.S. were recruited to undergo unnecessary procedures in exchange for money or low-cost cosmetic surgeries.

The arrests bring to 17 the number of people named in the "rent-a-patient" scam allegedly operated out of Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park.

Michael C. Chan, a Cerritos obstetrician, William W. Hampton, a Seal Beach surgeon, and Mario Z. Rosenberg, a Beverly Hills gastroenterologist on staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, are accused of performing more than 1,000 unneeded procedures on 940 patients, then billing insurance companies an estimated $30 million for the work.