GP avoids prison over $318,000 Medicare fraud due to ‘very unusual case’
'Exceptional' mitigating factors meant imprisonment was inappropriate, the County Court of Victoria found.
A former GP who collected $318,000 in rebates for fake bulk-billed Medicare services has received a three-year prison sentence, which has been wholly suspended because of his Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions.
The County Court of Victoria heard that the doctor, now 78, submitted 5108 bulk-billed claims for consultations with 330 patients that never happened.
