Former doctor, company behind 1-800-GET-THIN found guilty of fraud
LOS ANGELES — A former doctor was found guilty by a federal jury this week of fraudulently submitting roughly $355 million in insurance claims as part of the 1-800-GET-THIN network, a business federal prosecutors say involved falsified sleep studies to convince insurance companies to pre-approve the weight loss Lap-Band surgery.
The 1-800-GET-THIN billboards once dominated the Los Angeles landscape with claims
