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| | Trudy Maurer And Medical Director To Pay $84K Plus Each In Restitution. Sentencing Scheduled For Thursday, February 18th. By Lonce LaMon - February 16, 2016
Sentencing for Trudy Maurer, the former CEO of Implantium, and her former medical director, Tigran Shahsuvaryan, will take place on Thursday, February 18th at 1:30 pm in Department 30 in San Diego Superior Court at 220 West Broadway in downtown San Diego.
Maurer and Shahsuvaryan faced 24 counts of unlawfully filing false and fraudulent claims in a felony complaint filed in April of 2015 by the San Diego District Attorney’s office. On January 19th 2016, the same day as a readiness conference was scheduled, Maurer and Shahsuvaryan pleaded guilty to only the 1st Count, with the remaining 23 Counts getting dismissed. The terms of the plea agreement for both defendants is to admit to a prior conviction in Santa Clara County back in 2013, both to pay $84,894.42 each in restitution by year’s end 2017, and serve 25 hours of community service each by year’s end 2016.
Both will not have to pay $25,000 each to the California Department of Insurance’s Workers’ Compensation Fraud Fund if probations are successfully completed.
The dates for the false and fraudulent claims filed in Count 1 ranged between May 1st and May 30th 2010. All the other alleged false and fraudulent claims written in the other 23 counts, which were dismissed, had dates ranging from time periods throughout 2007 to 2010.
Implantium provided spinal hardware to workers’ compensation spine surgery patients. The mark-ups for the hardware regularly hit the thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars. Thus, this case is a billing fraud case for egregious overbilling.
Benjamin Gluck, right, is shown here in the Honorable Thomas Goethals court room in Orange County Superior Court on the Landmark Medical case on September 12th 2014. copyright Lonce LaMon; all rights reserved
Deputy District Attorney Pedro Bernal prosecuted this case. Trudy Maurer is represented by attorney Robb Atkins of Winston & Strawn in San Francisco. Atkins did not respond to questions left in two messages left by this writer for him on his office voice mail box. Tigran Shahsuvaryan is represented by Benjamin Gluck of the Bird firm. Gluck has not replied to this writer’s email message asking him for his arguments used for negotiating 23 counts out of the complaint into dismissal.
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