Introducing . . . Doctor Billions
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What warning signs did Derika Moses notice after her spine surgery?
When you put your body in the hands of a surgeon, you assume your doctor will do you no harm.
I'm looking at the surgery board for tomorrow going, these people are fucked.
You assume your doctor is in this for something more than just money.
The patients were never a priority. They were a
How did the counterfeit spinal hardware scheme get uncovered?
chess piece in this whole game.
But when greed replaces care, something absolutely insane happens. One doctor says, yeah, I did a uh a lumbar fusion, my kickback was twenty-five thousand, and the other doctor's going, well I only got twelve thousand because I did a neck. This is a story about a massive web of fraud and deception. It involved dozens of doctors, lawyers, and medical professionals all over Southern California.
Who was Michael Drobot and what role did he play in the billion‑dollar fraud?
A fraud worth over one billion dollars.
Patients were committing suicide, losing their homes, losing their marriages, um, proven that they had counterfeit screws in their body. That was fact.
I would catch him at night crying. This is a big buff guy and it just broke my heart.
What tactics did investigators use to expose doctors and lawyers involved?
It would take blackmail, subterfuge, spy work, and years to uncover the extent of the crimes.
I got five or six female FBI agents to play medical marketers, wired them up for recording devices, and just sat back and let these doctors and attorneys talk about how much money they made doing all these bad things.
From Sony Music Entertainment and Western Sound, this is Dr. Billions. Los Angeles is the training ground for all fraud in the United States.
Why is Los Angeles considered the training ground for U.S. healthcare fraud?
I'm Benadair. Dr. Billions is coming October 1st to The Binge. Search for Dr. Billions wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes all at
once, ad-free. I'm disgusted that I I ever even shook these people's hands.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What warning signs did Derika Moses notice after her spine surgery?
0:02–0:26
2
How did the counterfeit spinal hardware scheme get uncovered?
0:26–0:56
3
Who was Michael Drobot and what role did he play in the billion‑dollar fraud?
0:56–1:18
4
What tactics did investigators use to expose doctors and lawyers involved?
1:18–1:52
5
Why is Los Angeles considered the training ground for U.S. healthcare fraud?
1:52–2:08