A Toccoa medical clinic and two dermatologists who practice there have agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle whistleblower claims that they fraudulently billed Medicare, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta announced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said that the settlement resolves civil allegations made under the Federal False Claims Act that dermatologists Margaret Kopchick and Russell Burken and their practice group, Toccoa Clinic Medical Associates, billed Medicare for services that Medicare did not cover.
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